东京大学实验室发明了一台无敌剪刀石头布机器手
。这是由于机器的视觉捕捉和机器手指的反应速度比人类的脑手配合要快 。截止到6月底,在YouTube网上,一段机器手“长胜不衰”的视频吸引了网友超过300万次的点击 。TOKYO — Tokyo University laboratory has developed a robot that never loses at the game of Rock Paper Scissors. That is because its visual processing abilities and fingers work together faster than the synchronization of any human brain. A video of the undefeated robot has garnered more than 3 million views on YouTube since going online at the end of June.
Tokyo University engineering professor Masatoshi Ishikawa has a good-natured response to frustrated human losers who accuse him of essentially creating a robot that cheats.
"[It is] not cheating. Every one millisecond the image processor decides, recognizes the shape [the human hand is going to make]. And after one millisecond can make a winnable shape, one millsecond later than a human being. Only one millisecond. But a human cannot see this difference because the human eye is very slow," explained Ishikawa.
More dexterous abilities, combining repetition and near perfect accuracy are the epitome of robotics. At the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory there has been amazing progress in that direction. Such as a robot that can catch a falling egg without breaking it, another one that can tie a knot, and a robot that may not be quite ready for the NBA, but is able to dribble a ball.