This is amazing. Sheer brilliance. Read it in a News paper in India and immediately logged in to u-tube to watch it. Brilliant.

Fantastic!

You guys got it working! nice work!

Amazing stuff. Great work.

Awesome - very interesting. Thank you for the video.

Fabulous!

I'm proud to be Swinburne student :) thumbs up!!

AWESOME

Wow that is awesome..!

amazing

It's amazing

Makes me proud to be a Swinburne student ...

@Mrlernedman If you watch the video carefully, you can see all the cube rotations that allow it to turn the cube on all three axes.

@cvunit lol I'll take that as a compliment. We'll all happily admit that making a Rubik's Cube solving robot isn't a terribly worthy goal. We had a set budget and had to spend the time on it for uni so we thought we may as well do something fun. Most final year projects end up gathering dust in the engineering building. We're just happy that this one is being taken around to schools and open days to get other kids excited about engineering :-)

@pitib0y I'm currently studying Robotics+Mecha Eng. @ Swinburne myself and was talking to some of the members of the group (Dan+David). It's happened often enough to warrant the 'shield' but its also to protect people from the fast moving hands. That and it looks cool.

Current world record for a human solving such a puzzle is 6.24 seconds. Still 4 more seconds to bridge. Still, much more impressive than previous Rubiks-solving machines I've seen.

@eveninghorse in theory the algorithm could be adapted to solve larger cubes but the hardware would need to be very different. Solving the 4x4x4 requires the gripper to move to different positions to turn each row rather being able to simply grip by the center of the cube. It is colour independent though so if you had a cube with different colours it will still work.

wow!

@KiranGlitch That was actually a design decision. We wanted it to be similar to how a human could hold it (i.e. a human could do all the moves exactly the same as the robot).

Incredible! I'm rarely this impressed. Detective Jacques Pierre Clouseau Jr!

wow

@Jedi5412 It's not so much 40 cube moves but each move can take the robot up to 3 to do depending on the previous position of the cube. Needs to rotate the whole cube to a place where it can manipulate it.

nice

I for one welcome our new robotic rubick's cube solving overlords

Took the guy longer to unscramble it.......you guys created a monster!!

@Abbiesilk Good call bast!

@MRDarkissus - My robots use my own software algorithm which is not really based on any human method and is able to find solutions of around 20 moves very quickly. Most human solutions I believe typically produce solutions of 50 or more moves. I suspect most other robots use a method developed by Herbert Kociemba which is also capable of generating short solutions.

@kchadha21 I think the motors may give the blender a run for its money. They weigh 1kg each! The grippers should blend nicely though. Perspex should break into lots of tiny bits.

skills

@OMIfoot You madman!

@pitib0y depends if you turn a type a rubiks cube the wrong way then yes

@MRDarkissus - I'm not one of the Swinburne team..... :-) but yes, they did an awesome job!

Dropped my jaw on 11-th second.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

woooooow

Cool! Will it be able to solve 4x4x4? Or even bigger?

@Enodium @Doruruna at the very beginning it looks at all the sides, if you look carefully you can see it. if they had another camera (or two) it could go even faster I bet.

swinburne is on engadget yeaaaaaaa

The Robot spying connected to Camera as the Rubik'sCube was disassembled and then assembled it in reverse order! )

You should let it scan the sides, pause and then start the clock when it starts to solve it. Looks to me like it spent 4 of the 10 seconds looking at the cube.

Ruby is very cool... but have you seen CubeStormer II? :-)

for anyone who'd like to see the stuff ups, broken and flying cubes. I can't link directly but switch the bit after v= with V3c6G5S-Suo or search: Ruby the Rubik's Cube Solving Robot 8.9 second solve + bloopers

@lernedman All rubiks cube solvers only need 2 axis of rotation to solve a cube. It did rotate the cube several times, just because the camera vantage point is on one side doesn't mean that the entire cube hasn't spun. I've seen this in person and it can consistently solve cubes in 8-11 seconds regardless of how scrambled - having some sides matched up means nothing, as the bottleneck is the speed of the robotics, not the logic to solve the cube, any cube can be solved in 21 moves or less. Geez

Cool! Next step, teach it how to solve cpu power and size equations.

@OMIfoot haha, yep you got us.......

oha.

@lernedman for starters I take it you can't even solve a rubik's cube or you wouldn't be quite as ignorant, secondly 90% solved would require 2-3 moves to solve when considering the maximum 21 moves, and thirdly whilst the robot only has two axes for rotation it allows for all three (the only ones available) by removing one claw rotating 90 degrees and re attaching which means the the robot can solve the cube whilst accounting for it's position instead of simply solving from a single reference

shit!! the person who programmed this thing is very good! bravo

@pitib0y It's called pop, it can happen often if You're not careful with a cube. The only truly not popping cube is Dayan's Lunhui.

@EpicTask Dude, it solves the Rubik's cube with a mathematical algorithm - that's no fluke.

i just hope that now i am somehow one step closer to owning a lightsaber,,,,

That awkward moment when it takes longer to scramble the cube than to solve it.

will it blend?

does it use fredrich???

@erectinGear - even "CubeStormer"? ;-)

I counted around 40 moves (can anyone verify?). Improving your algo cat drop that to a maximum of 29, which would reduce the time to solve to 7 seconds.

@Autotrope

7 жыл бұрын

The robot needs to see enough faces to figure out the initial state, I am no expert but I think that probably requires a few turns in itself. Another factor is it has only 2 arms and can only turn the row closest to one of its two claws at any time, so maybe the minimum number of moves required is higher in this case.

@pitib0y yes a rubiks cube can explode... its just not the type of explosion you're thinking of xD

so this is all going to lead up to developing a portal gun right?

The robot clearly recorded his movements and repeated them in reverse.

@pitib0y Safety. You really dont want to be near any robot working like this...

its run with android??

@erectinGear The human had as long as he wanted to analyse the cube. The computer did not. I call that beat.

@Ngjiapi Ohreally, unlike me? Do you know me? I am a medical student at Tufts with one more year to graduate and you think I'm not doing something worth awhile? I have dedicated the last 7 years of my life to this field so I can save lives and help others. I'm not trying to bash them, I just saying they should've used that money and time on something more productive, just because it's a college project doesn't mean they can't make it productive and useful.

@kidsofsquids Got your back, bro. :D

Yes, but can it run on a mac.

@picsmics4 or grav gun

@OMIfoot At the end the robot dropped the rubics cube, so no.

@OMIfoot holy shit you saw what they did nice!

what is this case made for? can a rubik's cube explode ? lol

Wait, was it cubestormor 1 that broke the record next?

@Autotrope

7 жыл бұрын

Cubestormer predated this, I believe. The video I saw of it showed it doing a full solve in 10.75 seconds, slightly longer, and also had four arms rather than two, which may relate to which record was being broken. Cubestormer II and III did smash this record, though again they used more than 2 arms, so I'm not sure if they'd be in the same category.

@supporterrogue2703

7 жыл бұрын

Thx

Sounds like popcorns in microwave oven :D

ok get ready for skynet

0:53 Camwhoring

Is it a big deal? If you think about it - it took about 20 seconds for the student to "undo" the cube. The robot just reversed those moves more quickly.

*watching watching* what? finished?

fuckin hell... i cant even think in 10 fucking seconds.

@picsmics4 LOL!!!!!

can u develop a portal gun ?:)

44 moves hmmm

ZhanChi is better or Panshi.

give the robot a guhong so he can solve it faster

@lernedman ...You didn't get accepted, did you?

Shouldn't the robot get 15 seconds to analyze it?

0:08 - 0:30 me gusta

imagine what you can use it for haha

the man uses multiple axises to scramble the cube ..the bot uses 2

Mattos University = Good University

Not faster than a human ? Psh this thing is still 10,000 seconds quicker than me >.>

And the point of this...?

@pitib0y It's made for cameras, you fool.

Am I the only one who's disappointed?

my name is swinburn can i have money for this

Humans are still faster/better than robots.

The record was for the fastest ROBOT not human and robot

faster

Lol "record breaking"

Humans are faster...

That's not even close to record breaking. My PB with my mf8 legend II is better than that

@Autotrope

7 жыл бұрын

Record breaking for a robot at the time.

thats not fast

It isn't fast but I don't care about