Last Christmas my son, now 14 years old, got a robotic toolkit present. This is a video showing the result. I was honestly stunned by surprise.

He uses the robotic toolkit to move the cube. A webcam is linked to a PC to feed the algorithm. A Visual Basic program feeds the robot with instructions.
Sourcecode available on his website.

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1. Keith Brooks09/21/2009 21:48:56
Homepage: http://www.vanessabrooks.com

That was awesome

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2. mark hughes09/21/2009 21:55:58

Dude your son is going to make us all look bad

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3. Steven09/21/2009 23:21:38

Ahh, this was done years ago

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4. Oliver Regelmann09/22/2009 10:37:32
Homepage: http://regelmann.ch

Die Jugend von heute hat auch nichts mehr zu tun

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5. Simon O'Doherty09/22/2009 14:20:11
Homepage: http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/Simon/

I wonder if a robot that peels the stickers off would be faster? ;)

Very cool though.

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6. Peter Pötzi10/01/2009 19:57:09
Homepage: http://peterp.brandlehner.at

hallo,

Das ist natürlich erst der Prototyp, jetzt ist bald Version 2.0 fertig, die schafft den Würfel in 0:30 (der Weltrekord liegt bei 1:04); der Würfel kann jetzt bis zu 17x in der Sekunde gekippt werden (also 0,06 Sekunden)

Google translation:

This is of course only a prototype, now version 2.0 is almost ready, which creates the cube in 0:30 (the world record is 1:04), the cube can now be tilted up to 17x in the second (ie 0.06 seconds )

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7. Peter Pötzi12/18/2009 21:54:20
Homepage: http://peterp.brandlehner.at

Ich babe den Weltrekord um 1 Sekunde gebrochen(1:03 statt 1:04)

Ein Video der neueren Version ist auf meiner Webseite verfügbar.

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