College students create robot that breaks record for solving Rubik’s cube — smashing prior record held by $80B auto maker

Source: New York Post

Don’t blink.   In a hi-tech David versus Goliath story, a group of undergraduate students at Purdue University built a robot that crushed the world record for solving a Rubik’s cube once held by Mitsubishi, a mammoth Japanese corporation worth nearly $80 billion. The robot, nicknamed the Purdubik’s cube, solved the puzzle in an almost incomprehensibly fast .