Rock Paper Scissors Robot Wins Every Time

Researchers at Tokyo’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory developed a robot with hand-shape recognition advanced enough to win Rock Paper Scissors every single time. Watch above: It works so quickly, it’s not really winning — it’s just really good at cheating.

Recognition of human hand can be performed at 1ms with a high-speed vision, and the position and the shape of the human hand are recognized. The wrist joint angle of the robot hand is controlled based on the position of the human hand. The vision recognizes one of rock, paper and scissors based on the shape of the human hand. After that, the robot hand plays one of rock, paper and scissors so as to beat the human being in 1ms.

This technology is one example that show a possibility of cooperation control within a few miliseconds. And this technology can be applied to motion support of human beings and cooperation work between human beings and robots etc. without time delay.

One Redditor suggests beating the thing by playing rock (triggering it to play paper), then quickly switching to scissors. This way, you’re anticipating a cheat and beating the robot at its own game.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords. Just get them some WD-40.

[Reddit]

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