Combined with the clearly very highly responsive actuators in the robot hand and wrist, the robot is able to throw its shape before the ... welcome our new rock, paper, scissors overlords.

The game, known as “sansukumi-ken” in ... player simultaneously creates one of three shapes with their hand. The shapes are “rock” (a fist), “paper” (a flat hand), and “scissors ...

Considered in a vacuum of perfect randomness, rock, paper and scissors are all ... about the practical application of winning trivial hand games, check out this video produced by the nonprofit ...

The beauty of rock-paper-scissors is that it equalizes the odds of success among the players, like a coin toss, but still provides the illusion that there’s some agency involved. (Your rock ...

The Janken robot uses high-speed recognition and reaction, rather than prediction A robot developed by Japanese scientists is so fast it can "win" the rock-paper-scissors game against a human ...

A robot developed by Japanese scientists is so fast it can "win" the rock-paper-scissors game against a human ... Version two completes its chosen hand shape almost at the same time as the human ...