ARM engineer David Gilday has combined the Google Nexus One, some Lego and a Rubik's cube, in a tech demo that can only be described as the geek Holy Grail. We bow before him. Lego Mindstorms allows ...

Anyone around in the early 1980s remembers the pop culture phenomenon that was the Rubik's Cube. Introduced in 1980, the mechanical puzzle quickly became a source of pride—and a landmark challenge for ...

Check out this cool Rubik’s Cube solving Lego NXT Robot. “Tilted Twister solves Rubik’s cube fully automatically. Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor ...

Rubik’s cubes are a popular puzzle — one found exciting or infuriating depending on your personal bent. [PuzzLEGO] has designed a LEGO Rubik’s cube, with the latest revision improving on flimsy ...

Solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle popularized in the 1980s is an exercise in futility for many of us, but to a world class “speedcuber” it's a challenge of mere moments. The current official human ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

A Swedish man has designed and built a machine using the plastic bricks which can single-handedly solve the fiendish 1980s puzzle Rubik's Cube. Hans Andersen bought a Lego Mindstorm kit for his ...

The Cubestormer II robot uses a mobile phone camera to snap images of each face of Rubik's Cube, and then uses high-powered software to analyse the images and suggest its next move, sending ...

File this in the “things machines do better than humans” category. A robotic machine, controlled by an Android smartphone, claims it can solve a Rubik’s cube faster than any human. Check out the video ...

Remember the good ole days of simple games? Maybe you liked to jump rope, play “red light, green light,” or jump into hopscotch squares. There were many things we did with friends outdoors but solo ...

What do you get when you combine four Lego Mindstorms NXTs, a Samsung Galaxy SII, a Rubik’s Cube and two creative minds? You get a robot that can solve the brightly colored 3-D puzzle faster than a ...

Until yesterday, the world record for fastest time in solving a Rubik's Cube was 5.27 seconds, which was set in the fall of 2011 by a Lego robot named Cubestormer 2. Thanks to the machine's successor ...