There's always been something so annoying about people who found the need to stack additional challenges onto solving a Rubik's Cube quickly, whether it was doing it blind-folded or while juggling or one-handed. While it might have just been a challenge for them, it also seemed like a need to show off. OpenAI is clearly interested in showing off what its Dactyl robotic-hand can do with a Rubik's Cube. The organization announced that the robot has learned to solve a Rubik's Cube one-handed, an accomplishment that speaks to the robot's dexterity in handling and manipulating the cube more than anything. Previously, we had seen the robot interact with unknown objects without any real-world training, only virtual simulations.

The robot sees objects through built-in cameras and uses machine learning to identify them and decide what to do with them. Over time, as it wanders around the house, it makes an inventory of household possessions. According to the company, people can use it as a literal search engine--seeking real objects instead of information. "In other words, a child would no longer need to wait for his mother's return to ask where in the room she has put a toy," said Yuya Unno, a Preferred Networks manager. The company also showed a video of the robot cleaning up scattered toys, socks and other items and putting them in separate boxes.

Whether it's beating us at games like the board game Go or stealing our jobs, the killer combination of artificial intelligence and robots are owning us puny humans left and right. The latest example of a high-tech achievement that will make you feel on the verge of extinction? A robot that's capable of completing a Rubik's Cube puzzle in just 0.38 seconds flat -- which includes image capture and computation time, along with physically moving the cube. Not only is that significantly faster than the human world record of 4.59 seconds, but it's also a big improvement on the official robot world record of 0.637 seconds, as set in late 2016. The 0.38-second achievement isn't yet an official record, but if it manages to achieve the same results under record-testing conditions it certainly will be.

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.

The Rubik's cube was devised by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik more than 30 years ago, but he likely never envisioned his puzzle being cracked this quickly. A robot has this week solved a Rubik's cube in 0.637 seconds, at the Electronica Trade Fair in Munich, Germany. The machine, known as'Sub1 Reloaded' and developed by German tech company Infineon, was aided by one of the world's most powerful microcomputers. The machine, known as'Sub1 Reloaded' and developed by German tech company Infineon, was aided by one of the world's most powerful microcomputers The robot took a fraction of a second to analyse the cube and make 21 moves to solve the puzzle. Its time of 0.637 seconds beat the previous world record of 0.887 seconds, set by an earlier prototype of the same machine.