Lego Cubestormer robot solves Rubik's Cube in sub-12 second whirlwind (video)

Robots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik's Cube are nothing new, but we're pretty sure we haven't seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before. The Cubestormer, which is built from a myriad Lego Mindstorm kits, recently took hold of the famous block and lined up every color without breaking a sweat. Oh, and did we mention that it took less than 12 seconds? It's worth noting again, either way. Hop on past the break and mash play to have your mind blown, not to mention your own intelligence insulted.

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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:01AM]

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[zioncat Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:17AM]

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[DaveBach Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:17AM]

@paplay

As I understand it any Rubix Cube can be solved in 17 moves or less. I tell this to people while they're mixing up a cube for me to solve. That way they don't sit there for five minutes mixing it up.

The reason it takes many way more than 17 moves to solve it that they are going through steps to solve it working their way from one starting side to the opposite side's last four corner pieces. But if we could think like a computer after analyzing each of the six sides then we too would be able to solve it in just a few turns. There are a few out there that can do this but most will resort to the longer method that takes two to five minutes to solve.

[Indyaner Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:24AM]

@DaveBach

I never unstood what the Main-Algorhytm for this Cube was, so I failed all the time.

[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:27AM]

@zioncat
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[TonyMontana2367 Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:27AM]

@paplay

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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:29AM]

@TonyMontana2367
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[Erb Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:34AM]

@paplay

Oh god... Special Agent Steve....
What did you start?

[Balboa Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:39AM]

@paplay
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[JClay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:56AM]

@paplay
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[Saad the other one Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:18AM]

@paplay please stop speaking nerd everyone.

[Alexandertron Posted Feb 15th 2010 6:04AM]

@paplay

Hey apple............. is that a netbook running that code!?!?!? Hhhmmmm

Jobs you have some explaining to do.

what was that you take back what you said about netbooks not doing anything well?????

tits ^_^

[Diko Posted Feb 17th 2010 1:16PM]

@DaveBach
But the real question is... will it blend?
Or will it solve the blender?

[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:02AM]

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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:04AM]

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[Edobe Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:26AM]

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[Edobe Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:28AM]

@paplay I meant 01101101011001010110100000100000011010010010011101101101001000000110111001101111001000000110100101101101011100000111001001100101011100110111001101100101011001000000110100001010

[Edobe Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:32AM]

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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:35AM]

@Edobe
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[Nerdtalker Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:37AM]

@paplay

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[Nerdtalker Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:37AM]

@paplay

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[Elenium Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:40AM]

@Nerdtalker
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[robindahoods Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:05AM]

i agree with payplay, binary is the best custom for this topic, and yet im amazed

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[seaneffel Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:06AM]

I built a mindstorms robot that can kick this mindstorms butt. See Dorkasm dot com.

PS. Did they order this soundtrack from Nintendo Power magazine?

[B3astofthe3ast Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:07AM]

We should just build everything out of legos...a lego large hadron collider would probably work better than the real thing!

[dds1043 Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:08AM]

I want my less than 12 seconds back.

[TSIG Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:16AM]

I can die happy.

[formetopoopon Posted Feb 15th 2010 3:24AM]

@TSIG Head Asspload

[MFPrice Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:23AM]

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[RITarded09 Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:26AM]

Pretty amazing feat.

[sweet greggo Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:28AM]

Can it solve my ED in twelve seconds? Well CAN it?!?

*runs off sobbing*

[akandyba Posted Feb 15th 2010 3:40AM]

@sweet greggo
Erectile dysfunction?

[b3ar Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:29AM]

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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:32AM]

@b3ar
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[furquanatique Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:39AM]

@b3ar
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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:43AM]

@furquanatique
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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:49AM]

@b3ar in "base64"
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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:50AM]

@b3ar or in DEC:
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[b3ar Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:54AM]

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[Drybones5 Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:18AM]

@b3ar

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[Dahis Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:46AM]

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[bigdave Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:34AM]

I don't get why engadget even turned comments back on. Do they really believe that comments will EVER be useful?

[bigwhitebear18 Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:43AM]

@bigdave Apparently not.
There is the off on/button for those who like to complain about comments though.

[shithead Posted Feb 15th 2010 4:22AM]

@bigdave

i find it amusing how all the binary, hex whatever-speaking geeks only did so after the barbie article was published

[tompccs Posted Feb 17th 2010 1:15PM]

@bigdave Complaining about comments by writing a comment? Mmmm. Irony.

[evolutionofnonsens Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:37AM]

Impressive! Human kind would still be living in caves if guys like this could get girlfriends in their teens :-)

[plyr58 Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:45AM]

Somebody doesn't get laid enough. and yes I mean both the person that built this out of Legos and the people posting in Binary.

[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:52AM]

@plyr58
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[paplay Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:55AM]

@plyr58 aka loser
what can you build??