Maybe you have to win the game to get out of the museum and the robot is keeping you there until you win. But, you can't win because the robot has superior intelligence. So, there you have it. They're trapped.

@BB, the robot is worth $200,000, not the rock-paper-scissors program. The program was a recent addition to an existing robot. lol, the irony of a human who doesn't understand what he reads unless he's assisted, making fun of a robot who can't understand if he won unless he's assisted.

Here's a better link with a pic (glove not pictured).
http://www.physorg.com/news154101898.html

$200,000 for a program that requires a GLOVE to recognize hand positions, and then invokes some dumb program we coded up as 10 year olds in BASIC? Waste of money.

"BOFFINS have built a robot which is keeping guests at the London's Science Museum with games of rock-paper-scissors." ............ Where is it keeping the guests?
Perhaps the robot will also be able to fill in the words missing from the text too?

best tagline ever - surely rock paper scissors is the first step to world domination!

Will it show you the finger if you win? :-o

But can it play rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock?