Galaxy S II-Powered CubeStormer II

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Adam Flaherty

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October 18th, 2011 4

First Chess, then Jeopardy, now the Rubic’s Cube. Mike Dobson and David Gilday’s CubeStormer II Rubic’s Cube solving robot successfully beat Australian Feliks Zemdegs’ 5.66 second record by solving a cube in a mere 5.352 seconds. The feat was accomplished using four LEGO Mindstorm NXT kits controlled by a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. The Singularity is near, I tell ya. [via Gizmodo]

4 thoughts on “Galaxy S II-Powered CubeStormer II”

Yuri Numerov says:

October 18th, 2011 at 4:42 am

I want one of those to scramble my cubes! :D
USB 3G says:

December 6th, 2011 at 8:21 pm

I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. Thank for this imformation.