One of the biggest pathbreaking toys of the modern age was introduced by Hungarian architect Erno Rubik in 1974. Initially called “Magic Cube”, the Rubik’s Cube has challenged generations of ...
Today in terrifying robotics news, researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, in Switzerland, have built a cube. A robot cube. A robot cube that can jump, rotate, balance and walk ...
But the real magic of the cube lies in its design. Creating a core that would allow users to rotate the blocks in all directions was a brilliant feat of engineering, and ever since Ernő Rubik pulled ...
AI researchers have demonstrated a self-teaching algorithm that gives a robot hand remarkable new dexterity. Their creation taught itself to manipulate a cube with uncanny skill by practicing for the ...