Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot
How in the world did I not know about this for three years?
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that always wins at rock-paper-scissors. It watches the human player’s hand, figures out which finger position the human is about to deploy, and reacts quickly enough to always win.
EDITED TO ADD (6/13): Seems like this is even older—from 2013.
Moke • June 12, 2019 6:40 AM
Looking at the slow motion at the end it appears at cheating.
The robot hand always make their move after the human, aka cheating.
Now it’s still good work. Making the reaction time that short might require prediction but the video itself doesn’t show that.