Mark Rober’s lightning-fast robot can win at rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time [Video]

In a nutshell: Computers have been beating humans at games for a long while. OpenAI got its start with bots that could beat professional Starcraft players. Now, one engineer has built an unbeatable robot at Roshambo – commonly known as Rock-Paper-Scissors.

YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has created an unbeatable robot opponent that will shatter your confidence in the classic rock-paper-scissors game. Dubbed “Rocky,” the robot is outwardly just a simple box with googly eyes and a 3D-printed hand, so how good could it be?

Impossibly good! Rober excitedly shows off the bot’s capabilities in a recent video. Rober could not win a single round against the robot in his demo. Rober claims that the chances of beating Rocky are “zero percent.”

The key to Rocky’s dominance is a blisteringly fast hand-tracking system. An infrared motion sensor tracks …