Boffins create robot which can play rock-paper-scissors
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 17:56
BOFFINS have built a robot which is keeping guests at the London's Science Museum with games of rock-paper-scissors.
Berti the robot is worth £200,000 and is part of a Bristol Robotics Laboratory project to mimic the movements of humans.
Museum visitors have to wear a special sensor glove to play with with Berti who can talk and make hand gestures. µ
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But can it play rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock?
Will it show you the finger if you win? :-o
best tagline ever - surely rock paper scissors is the first step to world domination!
"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?
$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.
@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
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.