Robot Solving Rubik's Cube in under 1 Second

There’s a new arms race going on in the world, and this one involves robots. Much less high-stakes and far more entertaining than the Cold War, this supercharged and super-fast competition involves a bunch of robot makers and a bunch of Rubik’s cubes. The goal? The fastest time. The prize? Eternal pride.

Just last month, we told you about a robot that managed to solve a Rubik’s cube in less than a second, a feat that is already pretty damn impressive. But in today’s world, records are broken every day, and it looks like the bot created by software engineers Jay Flatland and Paul Rose already has some serious competition.

Another machine called the Sub1, the product of industrial engineer and economist Adam Beer, is apparently in contention for the title of fastest Rubik’s cube solver. In fact, Beer claims that the Sub1 actually managed to crash through the 1 second barrier before Flatland and Rose did, though that claim has yet to be verified.