This is how they start you know....and we might want to look it to upgrade their competition at this point to stop them from "getting their swagger on" --just saying.
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Boffins create robot which can play rock-paper-scissors http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/056/1051056/boffins-create-robot-play-rock-paper-scissorsBOFFINS 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
http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/400,http%3A%2F%2Fd.yimg.com%2Fa%2Fp%2Fafp%2F20090217%2Fcapt.photo_1234896207532-1-0.jpgMy triumph at beating Berti the robot in playing rock-paper-scissorshttp://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article5755163.eceAnd we were not engaged in a battle of wits over the chess board; we were playing rock-paper-scissors. Still, you have to start somewhere.
Berti is on show this week at the Science Museum in London, where he is engaging passers-by in conversation as well as taking on select opponents at rock-paper-scissors (or RPS, as old hands like Berti like to call it).
Down came our fists; rock me, scissors Berti. “You win,” droned Berti. 1-0 to mankind. Round two; paper me, rock Berti. 2-0. In one round, I played scissors and Berti played paper. “Draw,” said Berti, and for a moment I almost believed him, until I realised that I had of course won (again).
If he had decided to go paper, he certainly wasn't going to change his mind just because I had played scissors. Poor Berti — he just isn't frightfully bright.
In the end, I decided to put an end to his humiliation and brought the match to an end with the score at 5-2. It was a fitting revenge for Kasparov's defeat when he faced Deep Blue the second time around in 1997.
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