It became clear how multifarious science can be at Paderborn Science Days from 25. to 27. June. At Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum research facilities and institutes presented a varied program with different approaches from the field of automation, electro mobility, natural sciences as well as sports and nutrition sciences. Visitors for example could go racing with solar-powered bobby-cars, bake Berlin doughnuts at a virtual bakery or check their reactivity or speed.
Also represented was the Institute Industrial IT (inIT) of OWL University and the Fraunhofer Application Center IOSB-INA. The scientists from Lemgo presented the Rubik’s Cube Robot that solves the well know Rubik’s Cube within a matter of seconds. “The robot does not need more than 20 moves for solving the cube. No matter how twisted it was before”, explains Mike Röwekamp from inIT to the interested visitors. The robot illustrates vividly how elements from IT, image processing and mathematics can be combined. Many visitors – both being big and small – challenged the robot. “Especially pupils from 1st to 7th grade were thrilled to see the robot and wanted to compete against the robot”, so Philip Priss from inIT.