From news@nntp-server.caltech.edu Fri May 12 11:45:39 1995 Return-Path: Received: from piccolo.cco.caltech.edu by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA11038; Fri, 12 May 95 11:45:39 EDT Received: from gap.cco.caltech.edu by piccolo.cco.caltech.edu with ESMTP (8.6.7/DEI:4.41) id IAA23880; Fri, 12 May 1995 08:45:36 -0700 Received: by gap.cco.caltech.edu (8.6.7/DEI:4.41) id IAA24684; Fri, 12 May 1995 08:45:34 -0700 To: mlist-cube-lovers@nntp-server.caltech.edu Path: whuang From: whuang@cco.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Newsgroups: mlist.cube-lovers Subject: Re: Rubik's Robot Date: 12 May 1995 15:45:33 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 18 Message-Id: <3ovvqt$o3a@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: <950512095843.20201a78@iccgcc.cle.ab.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: accord.cco.caltech.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #12 (NOV) SCHMIDTG@beast.cle.ab.com writes: >At the IPC show, a trade show for industrial controls held in Detroit this >week, Kawasaki had a Rubik's cube solving robot. The robot has two arms and >hands and a video camera. The robot is handed a scrambled cube, orients the >cube in front of the camera until it has seen enough faces to deduce the >current state of the cube; displays the number of moves required for its >solution; and then solves the cube using both hands (grippers). The robot >is capable of manipulating the entire cube using only its hands, without >relying on anything else such as a flat surface. Unfortunately, I missed >the show so this information was obtained second hand. More information can be found by the WWW. I remember putting a link to it on one of my pages at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/. -- -- Wei-Hwa Huang (whuang@cco.caltech.edu) http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ Proponent of rec.games.computer.puzzle