From jkato@tmastb.eec.toshiba.co.jp Mon Jul 18 06:11:51 1994 Received: from inet-tsb.toshiba.co.jp by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA17123; Mon, 18 Jul 94 06:11:51 EDT Received: from tis2.tis.toshiba.co.jp (tis2) by inet-tsb.toshiba.co.jp (5.67+1.6W/2.8Wb) id AA04049; Mon, 18 Jul 94 19:11:40 JST Received: from tis4.tis.toshiba.co.jp (tis4) by tis2.tis.toshiba.co.jp (5.67+1.6W/6.4J.6-R05) id AA09681; Mon, 18 Jul 94 19:11:50 JST Received: from eecisa by tis4.tis.toshiba.co.jp (5.52/6.4J.6-R06) id AA02578; Mon, 18 Jul 94 19:15:59 JST Received: from tmastb.eec.toshiba.co.jp by eecisa.eec.toshiba.co.jp (4.1/6.4J.6-R1) id AA17013; Mon, 18 Jul 94 19:05:14 JST Received: by tmastb.eec.toshiba.co.jp (4.0/6.4J.6-R1) id AA16075; Mon, 18 Jul 94 19:11:24 JST Date: Mon, 18 Jul 94 19:11:24 JST From: jkato@tmastb.eec.toshiba.co.jp (Toshi Kato) Return-Path: Message-Id: <9407181011.AA16075@tmastb.eec.toshiba.co.jp> To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: A real robot solve the Rubik's Cube but... A real robot which had artificial eyes and arms and computer brain was manufactured at Kawasaki Heavy Industry Co.,Ltd in Japan last year. He can solve the real commercial Rubik's Cube. As he has not so intelligent, it takes about 12 minutes and 120 steps average between starting and finishing the Cube to solve it. Are there any other live robot like him over the world? Do you know? And you can help him more clever with your solving algolithm, can't you? ------ Toshi(Junk) Kato from Japan E-mail: jkato@tmastb.eec.toshiba.co.jp Tel/Fax: +81-467-52-1447