abunickabhi
Member
If say in a few years, we are able to make accurate scrambling robots, that can take input from TNoodle, and perform the scramble on any given cube for a round, what should be the ethics or rules that we should be formulating?
The scrambling bot should be able to scramble all types of puzzles (stickerless/black, 55mm/57mm, 3x3/sq-1), and it may have also some OCR tech to recognise which scramble has to be performed for that cube, and say a stamp to attest at the scrambler’s signature in the scorecard.
In the past, many solves have been misscrambled and some of them have even been WRs like Felik’s OH solve or Max’s OH solve. And also to scramble larger puzzles like 7x7, having human scramblers slows down the competition a lot.
There are lot of technological and logistic challenges to overcome before scrambling bots become a reality, but we should have some idea on how to adopt it into WCA competitions seamlessly. The main issue will be producing these bots at scale to deploy at every competition which will be a major problem, and also the cost of developing it. Fortunately, many cubers including myself are techies so we might develop it at bare minimum cost.
As a community, what kind of issues or situations, do you think will arise, once scramblers role is no longer a part of volunteering, and done independently by some machine.
More discussion on this topic on: https://forum.worldcubeassociation.org/t/robot-scramblers-in-future-wca-competitions/2409
The scrambling bot should be able to scramble all types of puzzles (stickerless/black, 55mm/57mm, 3x3/sq-1), and it may have also some OCR tech to recognise which scramble has to be performed for that cube, and say a stamp to attest at the scrambler’s signature in the scorecard.
In the past, many solves have been misscrambled and some of them have even been WRs like Felik’s OH solve or Max’s OH solve. And also to scramble larger puzzles like 7x7, having human scramblers slows down the competition a lot.
There are lot of technological and logistic challenges to overcome before scrambling bots become a reality, but we should have some idea on how to adopt it into WCA competitions seamlessly. The main issue will be producing these bots at scale to deploy at every competition which will be a major problem, and also the cost of developing it. Fortunately, many cubers including myself are techies so we might develop it at bare minimum cost.
As a community, what kind of issues or situations, do you think will arise, once scramblers role is no longer a part of volunteering, and done independently by some machine.
More discussion on this topic on: https://forum.worldcubeassociation.org/t/robot-scramblers-in-future-wca-competitions/2409