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Tic-Tac-Toe-Playing LEGO Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the step-right-up dept.

David Primo writes "TechEBlog has an interesting article on a Tic-Tac-Toe-playing LEGO robot named WOPR — created by Bryan Bonahoom. It uses built-in sensors and a custom program to challenge humans. Video included. From the article: 'The NXT display also enables the inclusion of instructions to the user on resetting the robot. This allowed WOPR to run unattended.'"

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  1. Strategy by not-admin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In a game of Tic-Tac-Toe, the only way to defeat an opponent who knows how to play the game is to hope he misses something or to hide your moves from him. On a 3x3 board, it's easy for a microprocessor to be programmed with all possible countermoves.

    Most tic-tac-toe games end in draws, even human-human ones, for that reason.

  2. Re:In a really SMART robot... by nebbian · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So in other words, AI was solved on the first of April, 2005?

    And that didn't ring any bells?

    --
    I am artificially intelligent.