Students at the Swinburne University of Technology have built a robot called Ruby. This robot is an end-to-end solution for solving a Rubik’s Cube that was custom designed and built from scratch using base components with the objective of optimizing for speed.
The robot works by scanning each face of a scrambled cube through a web cam and then developing a solution using a software algorithm which is used to solve the cube using a high-speed robot. The total solve time including the initial face scanning is approximately 10 seconds.
Ruby is the fusion of a fast computer vision-tracking system, a software implementation of an algorithm and a real-time embedded control system capable of very high precision motor movements and timings. This project was achieved with the integration of the student’s expertise in robotics and software engineering.
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