The newest version of a robot from Japanese researchers can not only challenge the best human players in a game of Rock Paper Scissors, but it can beat them -- 100% of the time. In reality, the robot uses a sophisticated form a cheating which both breaks ...

What do you see when you close your eyes and imagine robots? Probably tough, metallic machines that can withstand all sorts of extreme conditions. While that's usually the case with most DARPA-funded creations, the government agency believes there's a ...

Scientists have discovered how to build robots out of rice paper, opening up brand new possibilities for robotic applications. A team from the University of Bristol discovered that the same ingredient used in Vietnamese spring rolls could rival the ...

[Credit: Ishikawa Oku Lab] We’ve already seen robots that could potentially replace our best chess players, multiple musicians, and an entire baseball team. Now Japanese researchers have gone too far and built a robot that will always win at rock-paper ...

Though clearly inspired by the snake, a new soft robot out of Harvard takes cues from another fascinating source: the ancient Japanese paper craft kirigami. Unlike origami, kirigami uses cuts rather than folds to achieve the desired result. Here the ...

In what will surely ruin many innocent games at recess, a group of Japanese students at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that will beat human opponents at rock, paper, scissors 100 percent of the time. In hindsight, it’s amazing that humans ...