Japanese Researchers Build Rock-paper-scissors Robot That Wins 100% of the Time

slew writes "Although the robot technically cheats because it watches your hand and can recognize what shape you are intending to make and beat it before you even know what is happening. Apparently it takes about 60ms for you to shape your hand, but the robot can recognize the shape before it is completed, and only takes 20ms to counter your shape so the results appear to the human opponent to be virtually simultaneous. I wonder how difficult it would be to add lizard and spock to the mix.... ;^)."

Comments

Dupe

[Pikoro]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/27/0530254/

Re:Dupe

[Anonymous Coward]

Not a dupe, that was version 1 where it detects it after you form the shape with your fist, version 2 detects your hand as you are making the shape, so before you even finish it changes.

Re:Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @1

[girlintraining]

I dutifully flagged this as a dupe in the firehose before it made it to the front page. Lot of good it did!

Dice doesn't have dedicated slashdot editors anymore. They are editors of a dozen or so sites. Really now, what kind of quality do you expect now that they've sold out and now monetize the web synergies to create a new market paradigm of customer-focused informational advertisements?

Re:Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @1

[PatPending]

Dice doesn't have dedicated slashdot editors anymore.

Dice doesn't have dedicated editors anymore.