Humans may have gotten pretty adept at solving Rubik's Cubes, but as usual, the machines are coming for us! This machine, invented by Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo (humans!) can solve a Rubik's Cube in roughly half the time of the previous world record, and they claim it can "definitely go faster."
A video posted to Katz's YouTube channel shows the machine solving a cube in 0.38 seconds. Seriously, if you take a particularly luxurious blink, you'll miss it. The video slows down to 25 percent of the speed and eventually 3 percent of the speed to show exactly how the machine isolates sides and flips them into place. According to their blog, the inventors expect to shave off another 100 milliseconds after some debugging.
The machine was built with six motors (two from a robot arm), six motor drivers, and two PlayStation Eye cameras. The blog offers far more detail about the build, as well as photos from throughout the process that show everything from assemblage to busted Cubes that didn't make it.
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