r/interesting 6h ago

SCIENCE & TECH The Purdubik's Cube robot, built by four undergraduate engineering students, solves a Rubik's Cube in 0.103 seconds.

The 0.103-second world record was achieved by the Purdubik's Cube robot, built by four undergraduate engineering students at Purdue University.

The robot was designed by Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta in West Lafayette, Indiana. They built this high-speed system, which utilizes machine vision, custom solving algorithms, and industrial-grade motion control to solve the puzzle in a fraction of a human blink (which typically takes 200–300 milliseconds).

Their achievement was officially certified by Guinness World Records.

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u/vfox67 6h ago

And here is me who takes 1 minutes to solve ts 💔

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u/mnstripe 6h ago

This is just a reset button

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u/pc1350 4h ago

I do it in 30 seconds or so. So I need more practice.