Jay Flatland and Paul Rose uploaded a video to YouTube this month showing off their new robot, which unscrambles a Rubik’s Cube in the blink of an eye. It works by plugging stepper motors affixed to 3D-printed frames into holes drilled into a Rubik’s Cube. Four USB webcams hooked up to a PC scan the cube determine the state of the colors and feed the information through an implementation of the Kociemba Rubik’s cube solving algorithm, which determines what moves are needed to solve the cube very rapidly.
Police can strap bombs to robots to thwart bad guys in emergency situations.
The robots still can't operate without the help of an actual server and look to assist employees instead of replacing them.
Apple wanted robots than human labor to perform tasks, but the time proves that the idea was impractical and the consequences were unsatisfactory.