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Purdue University Students Develop Robot Capable of Solving the Rubik’s Cube in 103 Milliseconds, Surpassing Previous Records and Pushing the Limits of High-Speed Robotics
A robot created by four students from the United States has just set the world record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube resolution. The recorded time was just 0.103 seconds, less than the blink of an eye. The achievement was officially certified by Guinness World Records.
The feat is from the team composed of Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta from Purdue University in Indiana. The group is part of a cooperative program at the institution that brings students together for practical engineering challenges.
“We solved it in 103 milliseconds,” explained Matthew Patrohay in a university statement. “A human blink takes about 200 to 300 milliseconds. So, before you even realize it’s moving, we’ve solved it.”
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The robot was designed to identify the colors of the Rubik’s Cube pieces and to create its own algorithm to solve it as quickly as possible. This was only possible thanks to specialized hardware for motion control, according to the team responsible for the project.
Inspiration Came From the Past
Patrohay shared that the idea of building the robot arose during high school. At that time, he watched a video of MIT students solving the cube in 380 milliseconds. “I thought, ‘What an incredible project. I would love to try to beat it someday.’ Now I’m here at Purdue, proving that we can go even faster.”
Professor Nak-seung Patrick Hyun, the team’s advisor, highlighted the importance of the project. “This achievement is not just about breaking a record, but also expands the limits of what synthetic systems can do,” he stated. “This brings us closer to understanding ultra-fast coordinated control systems, like those found in nature.”
Record History
The oldest recorded record was in 2009 when Irishman Peter Redmond created a robot that took 1 minute and 4 seconds to solve the cube. In 2011, the time dropped to 5.270 seconds. Since then, various teams around the world have sought to reduce this time.
In 2018, the mark of 0.38 seconds was achieved by Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo. In 2024, the time was already 0.305 seconds, with a robot from Mitsubishi in Japan. Now, the new time of 0.103 seconds is the fastest ever recorded.
This achievement by American students sets a new benchmark for precision robotics.
With information from Revista Galileu.
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