Date: 22 April 1982 1703-EST (Thursday)
From: Dan Hoey at CMU-10A
To: Cube-Lovers at MIT-MC
Subject:  Cubebot
Message-Id: <22Apr82 170345 DH51@CMU-10A>

Caption from a photograph said to be from the Washington Post,
April 13, 1982:

	University of Illinois engineering student Daniel Talken
	adjusts the mechanical hands of a robot built by students
	at the school in Urbana to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle.
	The robot's computer brain can work out the solution in
	two-tenths of a second, but it takes the hands about 12
	minutes to make average 110 moves to solve the puzzle.

The photo shows a guy diddling a complicated machine in which an
unsolved cube is visible.  Eyes are painted on the front of the
machine's support above a bulge that may be functional as well as
vaguely resembling a nose.  No camera equipment is apparent;
presumably they tell the machine how the cube is scrambled, or
cheat and have the machine itself scramble the cube.