The Rubik's Cube was created 50 years ago by Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik. Over 500 million of them have been sold. Needless to say, the 3D puzzle has captured the imagination of countless students ...

The Rubik's Cube was at its prime in the 1980s, among Care Bears and big hair. In fact, more than 100 million of these puzzles were sold in that decade. But while many 80s fads went the way of the ...

Move over, human speedcubers. The Rubik’s Cube world has a new champion. Final-year University of Bristol Computer Science student Matt Pidden, seeking a dissertation project, discovered the robot ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Few people have solved a Rubik's Cube... let alone complete it in mere seconds. Thompson Clarke is known as a "speedcuber" and represents the puzzle company. He will be ...

Blink and you'll miss it: A Purdue University student engineering team has built a robot that can solve a Rubik's cube in one-tenth of a second — faster than the average time it takes to blink an eye.

Stephen Nedoroscik proved that not all heroes wear capes after his stunning pommel horse routine during the men’s gymnastics team final at the Paris Olympics. Some wear glasses. The bespectacled ...

A high-speed robotic system named Purdubik’s Cube has shattered the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to solve a puzzle cube. The system, developed by a team of students at Purdue University ...

From square one, 8-year-old Everett McCauley is learning to think outside the box in order to solve one. A third-grader at Bamber Valley Elementary School, Everett is a “cuber” who can solve a 2-by-2 ...