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 ...

Solving Rubik’s Cubes is a learnable skill. However, to compete at the top level, you’ll have to train hard. Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all.

Ever since the Rubik’s Cube was released, it’s taunted almost a half billion tinkerers who think they can crack its confounding mysteries, only to be stymied by its maddening secrets.

Solving Rubik’s Cubes is a learnable skill. However, to compete at the top level, you’ll have to train hard. Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all.

The world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube might have the world’s highest price tag, too. The fully functional six-sided puzzle cube by Japanese toymaker MegaHouse is so tiny it could fit under a ...

When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats ... That's what it feels like to watch the battle between Rubik's Cube-solving machines. Sub1, a robot whose sole purpose in life is ...

The Rubik’s cube, they explain, is fundamentally algorithmic ... products and spent thousands of hours trying to find the best gear and gadgets you can buy. Eleanor Cummins is a freelance ...

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who can solve a Rubik's Cube and those who can't. I, for one, belong in the latter camp — and was relieved to hear the Cube's inventor ...

Japan’s Yu Nakajima has become the 2007 Rubik’s Cube World Champ. The sixteen year-old managed to solve the classic 3 x 3-inch puzzle with an average time of 12.46 seconds after five attempts. His ...

Among this subset of keeners were Bram Cohen, a computer programmer (and the inventor of BitTorrent, a file-sharing protocol) who devises Rubik’s-like puzzles, such as the Maltese Gear Cube (in ...

The Rubik's Cube is an iconic puzzle toy. But it is mathematically complicated — there are 43 quintillion possible configurations of the Cube. Over 30 years after the Cube was invented ...

If you have a mind for puzzles you might want to pay tribute to the classic puzzle the rubik's cube with this Rubik's Cube Table. As long as you don't mind your décor bordering on college dorm ...