Most pointless....

[Funkstar]

but also one of the coolest robots ever built?

Kawasaki robot solves Rubik's Cube in seconds flat - Engadget

I for one welcome our robotic, puzzle solving overlords.

[Fraz]

Nice to know we can overthrow our new robotic puzzle-solving overlords by simply messing with a couple of stickers though

[Whiternoise]

YouTube - rubik's robot

Meh. I can solve it faster!

YouTube - Rubik's Cube Solve ~1 minute

[Pyrii]

I have a mega old book on solving the cube, but yeah, there's basically rules for moving colours around the cube without disturbing other blocks, then there's methods for doing other more complicated tasks, but if you give a computer these rules, and as you saw it scans the cube to get an aweareness of how the cube stands, then it can form a logic path of moves to make to solve the cube. Then those moves are played out by the computer and the moves are performed by using the motors in preset fashions. But it's not as articulate as human hands can be so it's accuracy of movement over speed.

[Fraz]

Is that actually you in the second vid, Whiternoise?!

And why are you a physics noob btw? Undergrad?

[Funkstar]

YouTube - Rubik's Cube Solve ~1 minute

FREAK!



Very impressive, humas are far more dexterous than robots though.

Did you see the lego rubix robot? i think most poeple could solve one faster than it

YouTube - Rubik's cube solving robot by Ranulf Green

[Whiternoise]

Yup it is indeed me - added a dedication just to prove it

Although i can do it around 50 seconds now..

(i will be a physics undergrad next year - i hope - i think physics noob came from a "rate the person above you" thread last year)

[Fraz]

50 seconds - awesome. I don't think I've ever managed to complete one side lol.

(i will be a physics undergrad next year - i hope - i think physics noob came from a "rate the person above you" thread last year)

Nice one. I'm a postdoc now - currently working on this bad bwoy:

CERN - CMS detector

[Whiternoise]

Haha wicked, i went there with my physics class last spring (around the time the fermi lab magnets went tits up) and we saw the ATLAS detector, not the CMS. That thing is HUUUGE, nice to see you've decorated it

I take it you're a physicist then? (or an engineer) Which uni did you go to (bristol, by any chance)?

[Fraz]

Haha wicked, i went there with my physics class last spring (around the time the fermi lab magnets went tits up) and we saw the ATLAS detector, not the CMS. That thing is HUUUGE, nice to see you've decorated it

Yeah, the pointy thing in the middle only went in the other day. That's the silicon tracker - 10 million silicon sensors with over 40,000 optic fibres to read the thing out, with a measurement accuracy better than 20 micrometres.

ATLAS is freakin' huge like you say! But mainly because it's much less dense. CMS actually weighs a lot more - 12,000 tons of detector in all, or thereabouts. I still can't quite wrap my head around the sheer number of cables coming out of the damn thing.

I take it you're a physicist then? (or an engineer?) Which uni did you go to?

Physicist - currently working on the trigger that decides whether it's worth reading out the collision or not. Gotta pick the best ~150 collisions in real time out of the 40,000,000 that will take place a second, so as to have a manageable amount of data to store long term.

Definitely recommend particle physics if you ever decide to do a PhD. You get to travel all over the shop, and it's a lot more interesting than being an accountant Pay is pretty good these days as well!

off-topic-o-rama!

[Stoo]

Anything to do with the LHC?

[Fraz]

Which uni did you go to (bristol, by any chance)?

Yes - Bristol

[Fraz]

Anything to do with the LHC?

Yes - CMS is one of the two big all-purpose detectors on the LHC synchrotron.

[MadduckUK]

will smith in unimpressed

[Whiternoise]

Physicist - currently working on the trigger that decides whether it's worth reading out the collision or not. Gotta pick the best ~150 collisions in real time out of the 40,000,000 that will take place a second, so as to have a manageable amount of data to store long term.

Definitely recommend particle physics if you ever decide to do a PhD. You get to travel all over the shop, and it's a lot more interesting than being an accountant Pay is pretty good these days as well!

off-topic-o-rama!

Kewl

I'm off to Warwick next year i think!

[Optical668]

Man that robot is kinda freaky, i mean its got a huge screen for a face, ears that look like shock absorbers from a motorcross bike, and arms and hands that look like they just came off a vehicle assembly line. And a voice that sounds like one of the cylones from battlestar galactica...

YouTube - BSG: Razor BY YOUR COMMAND!!!
check near the very end.

I think this is infact a kawasaki destoryer bot mk1...