"Faster than you can blink": Robot breaks Guinness World Record for fastest Rubik's cube solve

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Harambe Harambe

May 15, 2025

This is pretty amazing stuff out of Purdue University.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

From Guinness:

After more than a decade of fierce competition, a group of four US students have created a robot that can solve a 3x3x3 puzzle cube in 0.103 seconds - literally faster than you can blink.

The incredible invention was built by Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta, who are all students at Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

The bot solved it in 103 milliseconds, which is almost half the time it takes for a human to blink (200-300 milliseconds). The previous record: 305 milliseconds, set by Mitsubishi Electric engineers in 2024.

This is an interesting timeline so I gotta show it to you:


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