Bonkers.

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.

The only step up from this is to build a robotic Rubiks Cube that solves itself.

Is no one going to welcome our new rubiks cube solving overlords?

Are we not doing that anymore?

It's getting too real.

*geek

Adding video to channels (Geek) - requested by ant.

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.

Somewhere in the world, someone is wondering what it's like to put their penis in this thing. In fact, i was the first to say it so in horror i realise i might be that person.

http://videosift.com/video/Mommys-Little-Helper

The first instance I could find of a sifter (DeathCow) welcoming overlord(s).

( 9 AND A FUCKING HALF FUCKING YEARS AGO, OMFG)

Like, I know Simpsons "brought it back" in the 90s from a 1977 B-Movie, but still...