They might work, but if, as I do not rule out, the machine uses dead reckoning (i.e. it doesn&#x27;t use its cameras to detect when a face is oriented at exactly 90 degrees, but just rotates a face by what it knows to be 90 or 180 degrees), I think it would be difficult to properly set up the machine.<p>You would have to place the suction cups exactly at the center of each face, cannot allow one cup to suck a bit harder than another, and have to make sure all faces are very close to being perfectly flat in the starting position.<p>Edit: also, if those suction cups slip, I guess you will be looking at more Rubik&#x27;s cube parts than you thought existed.