If you get a brand new rubics cube out of the packet there's no way a person could solve it in 5 seconds or whatever the world record is. The cubes used for speed solving are worn in, may have different tension springs in them and will certainly be lubed.

If human cubers can modify the basic cube then it seems fair that the robot cubers can too. I'm not sure there's anything in the actual rules that would prohibit a cube as in the video.

The humans also get a period of time to look at the cube and figure out the moves they need to do before starting. The robots don't get that. At the end of the video the robot figures out the moves and solves the cube in less than 1.1 seconds, without seeing it before hand.

Very cool, but for competitive purposes I think the holes are cheating. Of course I don't make the rules, but I would think that such a machine should be expected to solve any standard rubics cube presented to it.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Okay, so Young McDonald is a little piece of shit motherfucker. Big whoop. How many videos on the sift are there of George Bush, or Karl Rove, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

We need a new channel - *douchebags

Just three more upvotes and it's "Return of the Banished Ginger Jedi!"

http://www.videosift.com/video/Aaron-McDonald-VideoSift-spammer-solves-Rubics-Cube

I am late to the party. I google his nickname, and found this:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Aaron-McDonald-VideoSift-spammer-solves-Rubics-Cube

I also found his SUPER hot older sister. Can't we forgive this guy. It must be hard growing up with that hot of a sister and you can't make out with her.