# Welcome our rock-paper-scissors robot overlords
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-rock-paper-scissors-robot-overlords/626461
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 27, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-rock-paper-scissors-robot-overlords/626461 "2012-06-27T14:18:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-rock-paper-scissors-robot-overlords/626461/1 "2012-06-27T14:18:46Z")
[They’ve built a robot that can always win rock-paper-scissors.](http://bit.ly/Qjvzz3)
Not sure if it can play the lizard/Spock variant or not.
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-rock-paper-scissors-robot-overlords/626461/2 "2012-06-27T14:25:18Z")
Based on the description of how it works with just a quick programing change it could.
I always said computers cheat and now robots do too!
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-rock-paper-scissors-robot-overlords/626461/3 "2012-06-28T23:04:37Z")
It’s good to know that computers cheat at rock-paper-scissors the same way they cheat at Jeopardy.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-rock-paper-scissors-robot-overlords/626461/4 "2012-06-28T23:18:05Z")
Immediately made me think of [that one good scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c1BQkKUsx0) in _Vegas Vacation_.