Via Schneier on Security, this is old but I hadn’t seen it either:
The newest version of a robot from Japanese researchers can not only challenge the best human players in a game of Rock Paper Scissors, but it can beat them — 100% of the time. In reality, the robot uses a sophisticated form a cheating which both breaks the game itself (the robot didn’t “win” by the actual rules of the game) and shows the amazing potential of the human-machine interfaces of tomorrow.
Rock Paper Scissors robot wins 100% of the time
Having super-human reaction times is a nice feature, and this certainly isn’t the only application.