Robot Does Rock, Paper, Scissors

You know how as kids we tend to settle on who gets the last slice of pie through a showdown of Rock, Paper and Scissors? Well, humans aren’t the only contenders now with BERTI (built by a partnership of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Elutmotion Ltd.) – a fully-automated robotic torso that was built to perform what they dub “conversational gestures”, including complex hand movements. To demonstrate its capability, BERTI had a field time with a human player in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Will robots employ the same tactic among themselves when they gain enough sentient intelligence to rule us humans?