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Rock-Paper-Scissors Bot Always Wins

Posted November 04, 2013 12:55 PM

From BBC News - Technology:

A robot developed by Japanese scientists is so fast it can win the rock-paper-scissors game against a human every single time.

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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#1 Re: Rock-Paper-Scissors Bot Always Wins 11/04/2013 11:22 PM
	That could be fixed by playing the game right--with a partition so that neither player can read the other. __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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JCase Power-User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: USA Posts: 199 Good Answers: 6	#2 Re: Rock-Paper-Scissors Bot Always Wins 11/05/2013 10:30 AM
	Technically, the robot cheats because it reacts extremely quickly to what the human hand is doing rather than making a premeditated simultaneous action as the rules state. New headline for article: Japanese Scientists create robot that cheats really fast at rock paper scissors!!
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