stoic
Premium Member
Guinness =/= WCA. They're free to do their thing however they want.
I wasn't suggesting they should Stackmat it.
Guinness =/= WCA. They're free to do their thing however they want.
How does it know the color of the centers? They are completely covered by the turning mechanism.
There are two possibilities:
They are unknown to the robot. So in fact it probably doesn't always solve the cube. (Judging by the video only actually nobody cared to check, that the cube is really solved at the end.)
The cube must be inserted in a fixed orientation. Then the robot has the unfair advantage (compared to cubestormer) of already knowing six of the stickers. Also in all WCA events, in which inspection time is considered as part of the solve time (blind), the cube MUST be oriented randomly. So in this case the robot cheated in my opinion.
Having watched the video again and seeing, that some of the arms are labeled with a certain color, that matches the color of the (solved) adjacent cube face, I conclude almost certainly, that my second scenario must be right. The robot already knows six stickers of the cube and therefore has an unfair advantage.