The world's largest pop group AKB48 uses the game to determine who will appear on their next record. The annual matches have been known to last several hours, which may be the reason 2016's final ...

Japanese Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot Never Loses Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a robotic hand that never loses a hand of the familiar choosing game rock-paper-scissors, or "janken," ...

If rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and paper beats rock, then what beats robot? NOTHING. No, really — a team of Japanese researchers has just unveiled a robot hand that cannot be beaten at ...

The beauty of rock-paper-scissors is that it equalizes the odds of success among the players, like a coin toss, but still provides the illusion that there’s some agency involved. (Your ...