The astonishing moment a robot solves a Rubik's cube in .38 seconds

A pair of hardware hackers have beat the world record for solving a Rubik's cube robotically, completing the task in almost half the time. The Guinness World Record was set just over a year ago by a Hungarian architect and his'Sub1 Reloaded' machine when it solved a Rubik's cube in 0.637 seconds. That record, however, has now been demolished. Software developer Jared Di Carlo and MIT Biometrics Lab Master's student Ben Katz devised a contraption that can solve a Rubik's cube in a stunning 0.38 seconds. Software developer Jared Di Carlo and MIT Biometrics Lab Master's student Ben Katz built a'Rubik's Contraption' that's capable of solving the complicated puzzle in a mere 0.38 seconds The researchers discovered that they could easily beat the world record by using a different kind of motor on their'Rubik's Contraption.' 'We noticed that all of the fast Rubik's Cube solvers were using stepper motors, and thought that we could do better if we used better motors,' Di Carlo wrote in a blog post.