Rubik's Cube completing robot sets new record

[Laur]

The world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot has been developed -- but it's still not as fast as the most Rubik-ly skilled human.

Named Ruby, the robot built by students at Swinburne University of Technology can solve the scrambled puzzle in just over 10 seconds.

While that includes the time taken to scan the initial status of the cube, it's still relatively slow compared to Rubik's fan Feliks Zemdegs, who has a world record of 6.24 seconds.

However, it's considerably faster than the previous Rubik's robot record holder, that took 18.2 second to complete the puzzle in October 2010. And a lot faster than us, we started in 1984 and haven't finished yet.

A spokesperson for the team - who built Ruby from scratch as their final year project - said: "Ruby works by scanning each face of a scrambled cube through a web cam.

"It then uses a software algorithm to develop a solution which is fed to the high-speed robot through a real-time embedded control system."