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 any human brain. A video of the robot has been watched by more than 3 million viewers 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 (千分之一秒) the image processor decides and recognizes the shape the human hand is going to make. And then the robot can make a winnable shape one millisecond later than a human being. Only one millisecond, but a human cannot see this difference because the human eye is very slow,” explained Ishikawa.

At the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory there has been amazing progress which shows the near perfect accuracy of robotics, 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 (运球) a ball.

In sports such as baseball and cricket, the misses outnumber (比......多) successes for even the most skilled athletes. That is not so in this award-winning school laboratory. For instance, an intelligent robot is the result of five years of research and a lot of trial and error. And the cost of just one finger on the robot is equal to that of a mini car.

The technology obviously has uses beyond fun and games. Corporations are eager to take advantage of the lab’s technology for industrial and other practical uses. And there is talk of applying it to assisting disabled people and improving human capabilities.

【小题1】What brings the robot so much attention on the YouTube?

A．It plays online games much better than any human.

B．Its eyes and fingers can work at the same time.

C．It can do whatever people tell it to do.

D．It never loses in the game against humans.

【小题2】Ishikawa’s explanation suggests that the robot ________.

A．proves to be dishonest	B．responds faster than humans
C．works slower sometimes	D．is lucky to win the game

【小题3】The author proves that a robot is skillful and accurate through ________.

A．performing an experiment	B．telling an interesting story
C．offering some practical examples	D．ordering it to do something hard

【小题4】Which section of a website is the text probably taken from?

A．Science and technology.	B．Human and society.
C．Sports and games.	D．Relaxation and entertainment.