CubeStormer 3 is a robot built primarily with

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and the Samsung Galaxy S4. On 15 March 2014, at the Big Bang fair in

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, the CubeStormer 3 broke the previous record, held by its predecessor, the

CubeStormer II CubeStormer II is a robot built primarily with Lego Mindstorms and a Samsung Galaxy S2 for solving a Rubik's Cube. The project was commissioned by ARM Holdings and designed and built by Mike Dobson and David Gilday. CubeStormer II set a Guinness ...

, for the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube. The previous

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time was 5.270 seconds. The official time taken to solve the Rubik's Cube by the ''CubeStormer 3'' was 3.253 seconds. This robot was created by inventors David Gilday and Mike Dobson. It took the two of them 18 months to perfect the technology of this robot. The robot was able to conquer the cube by use of four robotic hands. The robot is made out of

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and

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. Gilday and Dobson hope to beat their record again with another faster robot in the future.

External links

LEGO robot sets new Rubik's cube world record , Crave - CNETVideo of Cubestormer3 Breaking World Record

References

Lego Mindstorms Rubik's Cube {{Robo-stub