A robot recently developed by Japanese scientists is so fast it can win the rock-paper-scissor game against a human every single time!
The Janken robot (named after the game’s Japanese name) is a faster version of the one revealed by researchers at the University of Tokyo in 2012. It uses high-speed recognition and reaction rather than prediction – effectively cheating its way to winning! The researchers at the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory hope that the technology will help to improve human-machine cooperation systems.
We wouldn’t want to play rock-paper-scissors against this one! Check out the video below to see the robot in action.