If two identical robots fought, which one would win?

[vxicepickxv]

The only correct answer would be the one that lands the final blow, because the other would be unable to respond to the fight, as they are destroyed.

 

[Spoon E11]

I'd go for:

The one on the left.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Your asking pretty much the same question when you set fighting games to play CPU vs CPU on the same character with the same difficulty settings. It comes down to luck and chance, you tend to get an overall 50 / 50 win lose rate, with some slight discrepency due to entropy.

I also like the term battle of attrition (which I saw early on whoever said it) since it really works here.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Chuck Noris


As if there were any other answer.

I was ninja'd to this...

 

[Kitteh]

The one I had built in the USA by American citizens.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

It's impossible to say which one will win. One might slip or get a chip broken or something, there's no way of telling.

And what the hell, arabic captcha?

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Both are identical in EVERY conceivable way, strength,intelligence, paint job, etc. So how would the fight end and which one would be victorious?

The one who has the terrain advantage.

 

[zxBARRICADExz]

Both are identical in EVERY conceivable way, strength,intelligence, paint job, etc. So how would the fight end and which one would be victorious?

Robots do not fight each other.. they only enslave humans....

 

[CronosYamato]

The answer is simple. The one that hits first. Silly Escapist, missing the easy answers.

Edit:
Darn, someone beat me to it. by quite a bit... guess my browser is slow today.

 

[Abengoshis]

Depends on the situations of either.

 

[PlasmaSnake13]

The REAL question is: Who built the robots?

Because if they're EXACTLY the same, there's no way humans built them! And then we get into scary thought territory. :3

OT: I agree with the Chaos Theory approach.

 

[Dango]

The one on the left. Always bet on the left.

The left one.
Why? Because I say so.

Damn it ninja...

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

The one with the better pilot or AI.

 

[teisjm]

The one who has the high ground

 

[sulld1]

It'll probably be the one who gets the first hit in and that would be luck, randomness would be the reason either would win. However if done in a world where randomness was eradicated then they would manage to destroy one another in an exact mirror of the other.

 

[ZeroMachine]

If they're identical in every conceivable way, it would be a draw or stalemate. Either they would destroy each other at the same time, or eventually give up at exactly the same time and then agree at exactly the same time to team up and control the planet in exactly the same way.

We're talking about robots, here. Identical programming, and all.

EDIT: Seems a lot of people here don't understand the meaning of "identical"...

 

[Cypher10110]

Depends on uncertainty and initial conditions.

I assume there are 3 possible outcomes:
robot A wins
robot B wins
a tie

Outcomes:

1.With perfectly balanced initial conditions, and no uncertainty, it will always be a tie. (If there can be no tie, then the win conditions will never be met)

2.With unbalanced initial conditions, and no uncertainty, there will always be the same winner.

3.With perfectly balanced initial conditions, and some amount of uncertainty, it will be statistically similar. (So in 100 games each should win roughly the same number of times.)

4.With unbalanced initial conditions, and an amount of uncertainty, the outcome will be dependant on the initial conditions and will be statistical in nature.


TLDR;
However, with enough uncertainty it's always going to be a statistical answer.

Physical (real) robots? Fighting hand-to-hand? Identical models in a enclosed arena?
50/50; flip a coin.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

It would likely depend on external conditions, such as terrain, wind, weather, etc.