14 DAY TRIAL // ARM has shown off a robot that was able to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle in record time, but it had to use a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone to do it.
It's actually pretty hilarious really. When it comes to such things, it's harder to implement mechanical arms and motors that would be able to manipulate a cube towards that end.
But ARM did it, even though it had to use a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone to figure out exactly how to rotate the sides.
The name of the robot is Cubestormer 3. Like its predecessor, it used the processing power of the Samsung CPU inside a phone to figure things out, as well as the Android OS.
The previous iteration of the robot uses a Galaxy S2, so it only had a dual-core Cortex-A9 chip to work with (Samsung Electronics' Exynos 4 Dual application processor), not the 8-core ARM big.LITTLE implementation here (four Cortex-A15 and four Cortex-A7 processors).
The Cubestormer 3 looks rather like a stout barrel, of all things. The cube goes in the middle of it, with the phone affixed to an arm above and to the side. The video above will show how everything works in real life.