Now robotics engineers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have created a janken robot that wins every time (if you didn’t know, janken is the Japanese name for rock-paper-scissors).

Do the robot: These Barbies are ready to join the 21st century as robotics engineers, a new career for the Mattel doll. Credit: mattel The fantasy world of Barbie dolls just got more high-tech.