We have featured lots of Rubik’s Cube solving robots on Hacked Gadgets. Seems that there are many creative ways to come up with the same result. Since the solution to the actual problem has been well documented the solution turns into a detection of the existing cube orientation and then a method of moving the cube one move at a time in the correct order.
Spinning the cube is a trivial task for us but it isn’t a simple task to automate! Some student from Florida Institute of Technology have developed a great robust design. The vision system also seems to work very well.
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Oh, come on.
Four actuators, one robotic arm, one camera and one desktop.
They´re just filled with money.
A guy did the same thing with a Lego NXT kit.
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Was going to say the same thing — the “tilted twister” Rubik’s cube solver was FAR more impressive than this project. It was even totally stand-alone — no PC other than the RCX brick was needed to scan & solve the cube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fAn5A0HbhU
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