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From: "Walter van Iterson (EMN)" <Walter.van.Iterson@emn.ericsson.se>
Subject: Solving cube with robot arm
To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu
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Hi all,

Has anybody even built (or throught about building) a device 
which physically solves a cube? Something like a combination 
of a vision system to recognize the colors, a 'robot arm'
which can perform the rotations and a computer to solve the 
mathematics and to operate the robot arm.

I'm currently thinking about making such a system, so I'm 
interested if anybody else has done something similar.

Greetings,
Walter van Iterson
walter.van.iterson@hta.nl

[ Moderator's note: I'm sure there are some mentions of such efforts
  in the archives.  I seem to recall one such project at the
  University of Maryland. --Dan ]