Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent

The Guardian ^ | Jul 24, 2022 | Luke Harding, Jon Henly

[The_Media_never_lie]

Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.

Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.

“The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident, adding that the machine had played many previous exhibitions without upset. “This is of course bad.”

[srmanuel]

I think it might have been C3PO or R2D2 one or the other.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

This incident might be really bad for the sex robot industry.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Wonder if the robot warned the kid to keep his paws off the pieces before grabbing his finger and breaking it?

[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah, Danny is definitely missed!

His openings to the football threads were prime comedy!

[GingisK]

Even the smallest of motors will break bones when geared down low.

There has been no detailed account of the sequence of events that let to this accident. It is entirely possible that the robot snatched his finger by accident.

[Chode]

correct, but i’ve seen arms pick up eggs 40 yrs ago

the motor control algorithm is weak as the arm is strong

[GingisK]

Oh, so true! The programming was definitely not written to decent safety standards. I bet it wasn't tested too carefully either.

Did you ever see one of those things catch a ball bearing on a flat metal plate? That was a very impressive demo at an industrial show ... yep, forty years ago.

[Chode]

right? it ain’t rocket surgery

[mcshot]

Love it LOL

[DoughtyOne]

Bad bot!