Rock, Paper, Scissors: Three Things that Fit in a Handbasket You Can Carry Straight to Hell
It has now come to my attention that the same guys working on sensor-equipped robots, who are clearly hellbent on our destruction, are now developing them so that they can consistently defeat human beings in competitions. The geniuses over at U. of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Lab have developed a dishonorable robot hand that uses its lightning-quick vision to cheat at Rock-Paper-Scissors:
Nice going, guys. When are you gonna get around to teaching them how to box and fire handguns?
"The purpose of this study," write the researchers, "is to develop a janken...
Published By: Industrial Design - Thursday, 28 June, 2012
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