Records are there to be broken, but when it comes to the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube by a robot, it's difficult to see how much more progress can be made: the latest record-breaking time ...

Solving a Rubik’s Cube is a challenge for most people. For a team of students from Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it became an opportunity to redefine ...

In a hi-tech David versus Goliath story, a group of undergraduate students at Purdue University built a robot that crushed the world record for solving a Rubik’s cube once held by Mitsubishi, a ...

A Speed Cube is a special kind of Rubik's Cube that is meant to be solved quickly. ⌚Timestamps: 00:00-Intro 00:48-Cube History 01:25-Solve It Fast 02:11-Tips for solving 03:12-CFOP 05:30-Inside ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Petrohay about his team's undergraduate project at Purdue University. They built a robot that set a new world record for shortest time to solve a Rubik's cube. The ...

NEW YORK — If you've ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It's worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it. “Problem solving is ...

Solving a Rubik’s Cube would take some hours, even days. However, competitors at a cubing competition in Salt Lake City have practiced so that some of them can solve it in under a minute. Hundreds of ...

Walking through a toy store, one of the most recognizable items you’ll see is the iconic cube with six colored sides: the Rubik’s Cube. Chances are you’ve played with one, received it as a gift, or ...

POTTSVILLE — Puzzles in Pottsville, an official World Cube Association Rubik’s Cube competition, brought around 70 cubers to Pottsville Area High School for a day of solving on Saturday. Competitors ...

Having children means being a puzzle-solver in ways big and small. By Samantha Mann Puzzling, to me, has always been an activity for people who lack legitimate hobbies. The thought of assembling 500 ...