Cheating Robot Hand Beats Humans at Rock, Paper, Scissors Every Time

Posted on June 26, 2012

Automaton reports on a robot hand created by developers at the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Tokyo. The robot hand, named Janken, was designed to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. It can beat humans 100% of the time, but only because it is a cheater. The robot uses a high speed vision system to analyze the human hand and determine whether it is going to throw rock, paper or scissors. The robot hand then throws the appropriate sign to defeat the human hand. This happens so quickly that the human opponent cannot tell the robot is cheating. Take a look:

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