People won't beat robots at solving Rubik's cubes, but it doesn't make it a dead end. The idea is for humans to solve cubes with the constraints of the human bo

People won't beat robots at solving Rubik's cubes, but it doesn't make it a dead end. The idea is for humans to solve cubes with the constraints of the human body and mind. Optimizing movement for human hands, finding the most efficient algorithm considering the limited processing power of the human brain, etc... these are open questions and we didn't reach the limits. Kind of like chess. Humans have no chance against computers. But it doesn't mean people stopped playing chess, quite the opposite actually, and computers are put to good use for training and analysis and human chess is improving probably like never before. You can call human cubing and chess an "art" if you will, the way you spin the cube and move the chess pieces have some "soul". From a purely utilitarian perspective, both traditional arts and activities like solving cubes are useless, so they are also similar in that regard.