That was fair and just.
A specially designed robot from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has set an astonishing Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik’s Cube in a split second.
Champion TOKUI High-speed, high-precision synchronous motion test robot Turned a colorful six-sided puzzle In just 0.305 seconds, the MIT bot 0.38 seconds in 2018.
it is, Human record holder Max Park The goal is to achieve the “holy grail” time of 3.13 seconds in 2023.
“It was hard to reduce the time as much as possible, but it was fun at the same time,” says Tokui, the lead engineer on the project after which the robot is named. He told Guinness.
“We checked the video of the previous record holder and felt our motor was better than theirs,” he said.
“So I was confident that I could beat them with speed.”
Tokui, who is normally in charge of motor-related products at an electrical manufacturer, found that at first he had been working too fast and was overwhelmed with troubleshooting.
If the high-speed tetrahedron mechanism spins the cube too hard, the puzzle can jam, as Tokui and his team learned in their first official record attempt.
But the second attempt Smithsonian magazine reported The first attempt was followed by a 20-minute fine-tuning session and a record-breaking success in late May.
The secret to success The company’s signal response motor It also features Mitsubishi’s unique artificial intelligence color recognition algorithm.
“We are convinced that our products can make the world a better place,” Tokui said of the technology behind the record-breaking feat. “We hope that this record will let people around the world know what our products are capable of.”
