This is RuBot II. Learn his name, you will be working for him some day–if you’re lucky. RuBot II can solve a Rubik’s Cube. Really, really fast. He can do the thing in under 23 seconds. Not bad, considering that the standard cube has some 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations.
The robot, the second such ‘bot (as the name implies) created by Pete Redmond, was on display at the Hall of Science in Queens this weekend, as part of the first World Maker Faire held in New York.
Before RuBot II solves the cube, a technician calibrates him, mixes up the cube, and then places it into his cold metal claws. The robot scans a side of the cube to see how it’s mixed up and then proceeds to solve it. The robot actually made it into The Guinness Book of World Records for his cube-solving skills.
Check out a video of him in action this weekend, after the jump.
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