Someone made a robot that played Angry Birds:
https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/470/
I was wondering if this would work for Flappy birds. Due to the speed of the game, I think it is going to be quite a challenge.
P.S. If you are interested in the mindstorms robot part, I'll put a shameless plug for a robot I built some time ago (based on some work by David Singleton). Code is on github but here is a pycon video: http://pyvideo.org/video/1195/self-driving-lego-mindstorms-r...