Rubik’s cubes are a popular puzzle — one found exciting or infuriating depending on your personal bent. [PuzzLEGO] has designed a LEGO Rubik’s cube, with the latest revision improving on flimsy ...

A robot built out of Lego can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about 3.2 seconds, but some 40 years after I first picked up the iconic puzzle, I’ve yet to solve it on my own. I assumed that successfully ...

Back in the analog days, the geekiest expression of creativity and engineering have been Lego blocks. These days, it's the Raspberry Pi. Of course, LEGO has caught up with the times and you can even ...

Earlier this year, I noted the fastest Rubik's cube solving robot to date, 'Ruby,' which solved a Rubik's Cube in 10.18 seconds. At the time, I noted with a bit of species chauvanism that it hadn't ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

And you thought that Lego castle you built as a kid was impressive. Two engineers in England have set the world record for completing a Rubik’s Cube with a robot made from the ubiquitous plastic ...

Until yesterday, the world record for fastest time in solving a Rubik's Cube was 5.27 seconds, which was set in the fall of 2011 by a Lego robot named Cubestormer 2. Thanks to the machine's successor ...

In October of 2011, Mike Dobson and David Gilday's CubeStormer II robot, built from Lego kits and powered by a Samsung Galaxy S2, set the world record for solving a Rubik's Cube: 5.27 seconds. That ...