Robot Never Loses at Rock, Paper, Scissors Because It’s a Damn Cheater

[pokerfan]

This rudimentary robot hand, developed by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan, never loses at Rock, Paper, Scissors. It has a perfect record against everyone who's ever challenged it, but that's only because it can see and react faster than any human being can.

http://gizmodo.com/5921500/this-robot-never-loses-at-rock-paper-scissors-because-its-a-damn-cheater

[struggle4progress]

1. Moral: Don't ever trust a frickin robot

[TeamPooka]

2. or an automated voting machine.

Robots by Diebold....

[tridim]

3. ...

[Jim__]

4. That's impressive. Does the robot have a generic visual system?

Or, is it specifically designed to recognize the human hand? If that's a generic visual system, I'm surprised that robotic vision has reached that level of speed and sophistication.

[caraher]

5. But can it play...

rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock?

[pokerfan]

6. Like I always say

If you can't beat your computer at rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock, there's always kick-boxing.