This self-solving Rubik’s Cube robot was one of the coolest things we saw at Maker Faire 2019. Its creator Takashi Kaburagi shows us how it works and we take a peek beneath the tiles to see its robotic core. Watch it come alive and perform a solve!

Find more of Takashi’s projects here:
https://m.youtube.com/user/meiji0vs0lotte/featured

The Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, but the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution.

Although the standard Rubik’s Cube has only six faces, each presenting only nine cubelets, the end result is to offer a mind-boggling number of permutations, only one of which embodies the desired solution.

Wow! That sure is a lot of permutations. So, you can only imagine my surprise when I ran across this video, which purports to offer a universal solution that can solve the cube from any initial scrambled condition in at most 20 moves using the following algorithm: L R2 B L’ R U2 F2 L B D U2 B L’ R2 B2 L’ D2 U L’ B2 U2 R2 B D2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3g1BH6Yo8M&feature=youtu.be