A student's robot has beaten the world record for solving a four-by-four Rubik's cube – by 33 seconds. Matthew Pidden, a 22-year-old University of Bristol student, built and trained the ...

Student's robot obliterates 4x4 Rubik's cube world record. 12 May 2025. Share Save. Clara Bullock. BBC News, Bristol. Share Save. Matthew Pidden designed, built and trained the robot over 15 weeks.

The GAN Robot, now priced at approximately $75, can typically solve the Rubik’s Cube in about 5 seconds. However, it requires specific GAN cubes to accomplish this feat.

The original 3x3 Rubik’s has more than 43 quintillion — that’s more than 43,000,000,000,000,000,000 — possible configurations, but the principles behind the cube have been refashioned for ...

The robot solved the cube in 45.305 seconds, obliterating the world record of 1 minute 18 seconds. However, the human record for solving the cube is 15.71 seconds. "I was into Rubik's cubes as a kid.

Looking for a suitable a project for his final dissertation, the Rubik’s Cube once again sprang to mind. Matt was aware the record for the classic 3x3 Rubik’s Cube would be insurmountable due to ...