Can you compete with this robot in a Rubiks Cube Challenge.

31 Aug 2018 POSTED BY Vaishnavi Chidambaram

Mike Thomas - A tech enthusiast has built a high-speed, quad arm robot from scratch, which can solve the rubik’s cube in about three seconds!! Sounds amazing isn't it?. This quad arm robot is designed and built in china, it took about three years for him to build this robot. There was already a Rubik cube solving robot built by MIT students, however this one uses different principles. This quad arm robot is designed in such a way that it is much easier to place and remove the cube, which doesn’t require any modification, and, that the robot has claws that can grab the cube similar to human hands.

Take a look at the working video below.

The passion and love towards robotics made Thomas as the one-man army to design almost every component and even manufacture it himself. The robot, which solves the cube in about 1.7 seconds less time than the current human record (4.74 s), was developed through the following stages: building the high-speed motor; designing the structure of the machine and optimizing it for the algorithm, while at the same time adjusting the algorithm to the structure as well; building and programming the motor’s PCB and main controller; and, last, debugging and tuning the robot. ‘when increasing the speed, something we don’t see in daily life starts to emerge,’ - These basic concepts are being taught in our products as well - The mechanical design is being taught in the Beginner level, the algorithm is taught in Advance and Expert levels - Mike Thomas notes, ‘when performing a whole cube turn, both sides of the face are breaking so hard due to high speed, while the middle layer continues to roll due to the inertia, which I call flying edge. to solve this problem I need to tighten the screws of the cube in order to give more friction to the middle layer, however, this will significantly increase the time to turn the side faces. so there still potential to shorten the time as soon as I solve this problem,’

The robot solves a cube in 3.209 seconds!! Wondering to build one?. Why don't you kick start your learning now - Check out more at shop page

Source: Designboom