In 2012, the University of Tokyo made headlines when it unveiled the "janken" robot, a sophisticated machine that used a high-tech camera to detect human hand movements at astonishing speed. Equipped ...

(Phys.org) -- What do you call a robot hand that wins at rock, paper, scissors every time? Some would say a cheater, but others more in the know would call it the Janken robot, built by Japanese ...

The camera recognizes the hands issued by humans, boasts 100% winning rate with the ultimate "late janken" of only 1 millisecondScissors robotIt has further upgraded to version 3. In this version, a ...

What good is a 1-millisecond advantage? For humans, not much, but for a Japanese robot, it's means victory every time...at least when it comes to the game of rock-paper-scissors. Researchers at the ...

Janken The dining room at Janken. Photo by Joey Wrinn. The sprawling, opulent restaurant space that Bluehour called home for 20 years now has a new occupant. Janken, an Asian restaurant with a focus ...

Japanese scientists have released video of their Janken robot, which wins rock, paper, scissors every time against a human opponent. The robot, developed by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory, uses ...