A chess-playing robot broke the finger of its seven-year-old human opponent in Moscow, Russia last week after it was hurried by the boy.

First things first: Apart from a fractured finger, the young human chess prodigy — reported by NBC News to be “one of the top 30 chess players in Moscow under the age of 9” — is ap ...

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As a nerd-in-good-standing, I can tell you this: We can’t have robot chess nerds attacking human chess nerds. The nerds built the robots, so this is a clear case of a machine attacking its creator.

[RoboAvatar]’s Chess Robot consists of a gantry-mounted arm that picks up chess pieces and places them in their new location, as directed by the software. The game begins when the human, playing ...

Human control for the chess game takes place at a console on one side of the board. There, the player selects the piece to move, and the robot moves it.The computer then tells the robot to move ...

The triumph of the robot in breaking the human record The robot received 6.06 hours of practice. Impressively, it beat the previous world record set by Lars Göran Danielsson, who set a time of 15 ...

The robot uses a computer vision system as well as deep-learning features to gently handle the chess pieces and react to the moves of its human opponent. Player and robot communicate via a tablet ...

Chess, with its near bottomless complexity, was regarded as the ultimate reflection of human intelligence—a challenge too far for any silicon wannabe. You probably know what happened next. Six games ...

A robot grabbed and broke a seven-year-old boy’s finger during their chess match at a tournament in Russia last week. Moscow Chess Federation officials said it was an accident and insisted the ...

A relatively normal—well, as normal as human-vs-robot chess can be—chess game went awry last week when a 7-year-old boy’s robotic opponent broke the boy’s finger.