This playful and charming robot inspired by Pixar's Luxo Jr. desk lamp was built by Apple robotics researchers.

First, the mechanical portion of the build. The team are using a system of three robot arms positioned on the left, right, and back faces of the cube relative to a camera. When a cube is placed ...

Speed cubers can solve a 3×3 cube in under ten seconds these days, after all. [aaedmusa] was a long way off that speed, but his robot is an absolute ... actuate each face of the cube.

enabling the robot to rotate one of the cube’s six faces by 90 degrees in 0.009 second. The colors of individual panels were recognized by cameras and AI artificial intelligence technology.