rock, paper, scissors – you lose

Behold the mighty Janken, a robot developed at the University of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Laboratory. Janken is not to be messed with. Janken will crush you. Janken will be beat you at rock, paper, scissors, 100% of the time. Janken will crush your soul.

How does he beat you every time? Janken uses high speed vision to analyze the position and shape of its opponents human hand, giving it the ability to anticipate your move within 1 millisecond. I'm sure you're asking yourself, "why Janken?" According to lab researchers their technology could "be applied to motion support of human beings," and will one day be used to facilitate cooperation between humans and robots with virtually zero time delay.