The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has created computers that can drive cars, synthesise chemical compounds, fold proteins and detect high-energy particles at a superhuman level. However, these ...

A team of four students at Purdue University has built a robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about one-tenth of a second The robot, which the team has dubbed the “Purdubik’s Cube,” solves the ...

Discover the tricks the planet's fastest speedcubers use to challenge for the Red Bull Rubik's Cube World Cup. And now, you can learn and compete alongside the pros without leaving your sofa. The ...

The Purdubik’s Cube robot was developed by students who are fans of the Rubik’s Cube puzzle. (Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering pic) Students at Purdue University in the US ...

The Rubik’s cube craze ran through the world like wildfire in the 1980s. This simple mechanical puzzle is made from small pieces, called “cubies”, in a 3x3x3 structure in which each of the six faces ...

Scientists have cranked through the numbers and determined that no matter how you mangle a Rubik's Cube, if you're doing it right you can theoretically solve the puzzle in 20 moves or fewer. By doing ...

PARIS: Students at Purdue University in the US have developed a robot Rubiks Cube champion, capable of solving the famous puzzle faster than the blink of an eye. Dubbed the Purdubiks Cube, this ...

A robot in Japan has set a new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in the fastest time. Guinness World Records recognised a time of 0.305 seconds for the Mitsubishi Electric machine, breaking the ...

Having children means being a puzzle-solver in ways big and small. By Samantha Mann Puzzling, to me, has always been an activity for people who lack legitimate hobbies. The thought of assembling 500 ...

Records are there to be broken, but when it comes to the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube by a robot, it's difficult to see how much more progress can be made: the latest record-breaking time ...