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Here’s a short list of things this robot can do that I can’t: Write legibly. Solve a beginner sudoku puzzle in less than 10 minutes.

Swedish hacker Hans Anderson built this robot around the Lego Mindstorms System, which he’s also used to make the Tilted Twister Rubik’s Cube solver.

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The ‘bot first scans the board, and runs the data gathered through an a series of image-processing algorithms. After it’s solved the puzzle, its motor guides it to fill out the solution by hand.

Too bad he’s a little hefty for me to carry on the morning commute.

[Hack A Day via Gizmodo]

Corinne Iozzio
Corinne Iozzio

Corinne Iozzio is the former Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. In that role, she oversaw an award-winning crew of science journalists—both editors and writers—who are obsessed with shining a light on the thousands of ways science and technology transform our lives daily. She lives in Washington Heights in New York City (or, as she affectionately refers to it, “Upstate Manhattan”) with her partner, an ever-expanding collection of vintage hand-blown glass, and a talkative tuxedo cat hellbent on knocking it all to pieces.

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