Robot:: Rubik's cube solving from Daniele Benedettelli

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Mindstorms NXT Rubik's Cube Solver
by Daniele Benedettelli

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This time I did it!
Now this robot can automatically acquire, analyze and solve a shuffled Rubik's cube!
see Daniele Benedettelli webpage for details!

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This last version of my LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Rubik's cube solver can solve ANY cube (no matter how shuffled) in 3'30" minutes maximum.
I adopted on PC a fast algorithm to solve the cube.
Anyone who thought this robot was fake must see!

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The latest version of the LEGO Rubik Utopia project, the LEGO NXT robot that can solve any 3x3 Rubik's cube in no more than a minute!

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Intervista a Daniele Benedettelli per la rubrica del TG3 "Persone", andata in onda su Rai3 il 3 Maggio 2009.
Daniele mostra i suoi pi? famosi robot costruiti con i LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT(R).
Grazie a Matteo Molinari per la registrazione.

Interview to Daniele Benedettelli, for the tv news special TG3 "Persone" (People), broadcast on 3rd May 2009 on Rai3. Danny shows some of his most famous LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT(R) robots.
Thanks to Matteo Molinari for the recording.

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The One Armed Wonder is the second minimalistic LEGO MINDSTORMS Rubik's Cube Solver Robot created by Daniele Benedettelli. The instructions to build and program this robot can be found in the book "LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Thinking Robots", No Starch Press 2009.

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Thiis is the first VEX IQ Rubik's cube solver ever seen around.
It uses a custom Android app I wrote to acquire the status of the cube and solve it optimally (always less than 21 moves), using an implementation of the Kociemba algorithm
It is not very fast, I let you discover where the bottleneck is by watching the video.
More info on http://robotics.benedettelli.com

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Following RUBIX, this is a Rubik's cube solver robot based on VEX IQ and Android. A custom Android app scans the cube and finds the solution (max 24 moves). Since the IQ Brain does not have Bluetooth capabilities, the app communicates with it using light pulses. The robot acks the app by waving a piece in front of the smartphone's proximity sensor.
The communication is the bottleneck of the system, as you can guess. Maximum solving time is less than one minute.

The mechanics are self-inspired by my LEGO Rubik's UTOPIA robot, which was the first LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot that could solve a Rubik's cube in 2007.

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