We previously posted about a robot that solved a Rubik's Cube in .637 seconds.
Somehow I missed this astounding clip of an MIT robot killing that previous world record by spinning a solution in .38 seconds. I would think that at those speeds, the specific starting state of the scrambled cube can have a measurable impact on the solving time. Don't blink.
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