A team of Purdue undergraduates has smashed the world record for the fastest machine solve of a Rubik's cube with the absurd time of 103 milliseconds. For reference, it takes 200 to 300 ...

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 robot, which the team has dubbed the “Purdubik’s Cube,” was awarded “fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube" by Guinness World Records in April.

In fact, the team says that the actual Rubik's Cube – not the robot – is what's currently slowing them down. If they go any faster, the cube itself could disintegrate.

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 ...

The officially-recognized Rubik's cube world record belongs to Lucas Etter, who, at the age of 14, in solved a cube in 4.904 seconds in 2015.

The robot scans each side of the cube using a webcam and applies a special software algorithm to figure out the solution. But the fastest time for solving the Rubik’s Cube is still held by a ...

Solving a Rubik's Cube can be difficult in itself - so a boy built a robot to do it for him. Noah Hinkle, 9, from Missouri says he built a robot using Legos to solve Rubik's Cubes.