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I have always loved robots – ever since I first saw the 6 million dollar man I liked the idea of robotics and cybernetics, and then when I saw the Terminator films as I got older they changed my life! Watching this robot video has confirmed that the Terminator perhaps isn’t as far away as we thought! Okay, it’s not exactly Honda’s Asimo but it’s a clever and certainly very creepy robot that can complete the task of solving a Rubik’s cube in an average of 35 seconds (the fastest being 26 seconds, the slowest 45 seconds). This time could be considerably improved if the technology used for the robots fingers was more sophisticated, and he would need to do this in order to compete with the fastest ever human time of 7.08 seconds!!! WOW! The engineer behind this robot built a colour recognition system for his BEng, which he then extended to a machine that could solve Rubik’s cubes for his MEng. The robot we have seen in this video clip is actually version 2 (hence the name Rubot II), which holds the Guinness World Record as the fastest robot to solve a Rubik’s cube.