Despite its ’80s heyday long in the rearview mirror, the Rubik’s Cube has never really gone away. Its creator, Hungarian professor Ernő Rubik, said the following about his world-famous ...

In the quiet before the whir of motion, a cube sits scrambled. Then, in the time it takes to blink—actually, even less—it’s ...

Matt, an official ambassador for Rubik's Cube, smashed the previous benchmark set by China's Yusheng Du in 2018, leaving people gobsmacked. His hands move in a blur, and suddenly, all the colours ...

Purdue’s aspiring engineers set a new Guinness World Record.

Mitsubishi turned heads (and blocks) in May 2024, after its TOKUFASTbot solved a Rubik’s cube puzzle in just 0.305 seconds. Short for TOKUI Fast Accurate Synchronized Motion Testing Robot TOKUFASTbot ...

A group of students at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, have smashed the previous Guinness World Record of solving a Rubik's ... Cube," users can scramble the puzzle in real time, and the robot ...

and their machine can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about a tenth of a second. “We solve in 103 milliseconds. A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realize it’s ...

had helped organize a two-day special session about “serious recreational mathematics” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube. Erno Rubik, the Cube’s inventor, was top of the ...

Although we think of the Rubik’s Cube as an ’80s phenomenon, the iconic brain teaser toy first came out in 1974. This means that 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Rubik’s Cube in our lives.