A robot made out of Legos broke the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik's Cube puzzle.
The robot, named the Cubestormer 3, matched the cube's colors on all sides in just 3.253 seconds, over two seconds faster than the previous world record, the New York Daily News reported.
The Cubestormer displayed its wicked fast skills at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Made entirely out of Legos, the robot is attached to a Samsung Galaxy SIV smartphone with an ARM chip that commands the robot's four hands.
"We knew Cubestormer 3 had the potential to beat the existing record but with the robot performing physical operations quicker than the human eye can see there's always an element of risk," said ARM engineer David Gilday, who co-created the robot, the Daily News reported.
The smartphone brain studies the jumbled Rubik's Cube and signals the robot's hands to spin the cube, the Daily News reported. It took Gilday, along with co-creator Mike Dobson from Securi-Plex security systems, 18 months to build the robot.
"In the end, the hours we spent perfecting the robot and ensuring its motor and intelligence functions were properly synchronized paid off," Gilday said.
The Cubestormer 3's predecessor, the Cubestormer 2, broke the previous Guinness World Record. Gilday and Dobson built that one too.
"Our big challenge now is working out if it's possible to make it go even faster," Gilday said.
