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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters) - An electronic Rubik's Cube and an action figure modeled after President Barack Obama were among the crowd-pleasers on display on Sunday at the annual Toy Fair, where ...

Lego classic bricks, the Barbie doll and the Rubik’s Cube have been named among the top toys of all time by retailer Hamleys. The boardgame Monopoly, the Tamagotchi virtual pet, which Hamleys ...

The Rubik's Cube celebrates its 40-year anniversary this year. Reuters/Laszlo Balogh The Rubik’s Cube has finally hit its mid-life crisis as it reaches its 40 th anniversary this year. Invented in ...

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 ...