Though plenty of new puzzles have come from the house of Rubik since the Cube, there’s no denying it still holds a special place in the heart of geeks and enthusiasts. For that reason, and for the joy of combining the Rubik’s Cube with robotics, we present CubeStormer from RoboticSolutions. The claim is that this Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot can solve any 33 in under twelve seconds. The video shows this: I’m happy to take their word on the machine being handed random cubes. Just brilliant. Kinda makes your human attempts at solving the cube rather futile, eh? Never mind. You can always dress up as a Rubik’s Cube Read more »
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LEGO Mindstorms solves a Sudoku: slow but awesome
This amazing little LEGO Mindstorms robot has been programmed to solve a Sudoku puzzle and to write the missing figures in. As you might imagine, it’s quite a complex procedure that involves scanning the digits already present and working out which squares are blank. Read more »






