At an international chess tournament in Moscow, Russia, a chess robot competing against a seven-year-old boy mistook his finger for a board piece.
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Sergey Smagin, Moscow Chess Federation's vice president, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that there are no plans to ban the robot but safety procedures will be evaluated: “It happens – a coincidence. It is necessary, apparently, to warn the children additionally. It is extremely strange that this happened, but it happened, it happens.
"It will be necessary to analyze why this happened. The robot has a very talented inventor. It may be necessary to install an additional protection system."
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yeah, majorly dangerous setup. The boy is lucky is was just his finger and not worse. Those types of robot arms aren’t toys ..in college we were not permitted to be anywhere in range of its reach while it was running regardless of the script/path it was programmed to follow.
You know, Russia
You’d think you’d lower the grip strength a bit if you’re going to put it next to peoples hands. Maybe just a little bit. Maybe put some padding on the fast swinging metal arm that could cave your head in.
Kid: Good luck
Robot: I must break you
Kids 1st lesson in Cheating…. Don’t Do It. 🤷🏻♂️
In unrelated news, there’s a video on Twitter that people should see. It’s a robot dog on patrol with an “assault rifle.”
I hope the kid wasn’t trying to cheat!
And thus the leader of the Robot Resistance was born
In Soviet Russia chess plays you
Even the machine is tired of this BS
That’s what happens when you have rook shaped fingers
Afterwards the chess robot sent an encrypted message to SkyNet. “The humans break easily. Injuring one occupies three more.”
Lol
Then it retained a lawyer
After a long day at the door welding station robot A127YU67 just needed to relax and play something mentally stimulating…
*Breaking the kid’s fingers is an unorthodox move… But he was unable to finish the game. Lol. Robot thinking outside the box.*
Robot- what’s your name?
Boy – John Connor
Why is its grip even that strong to lift tiny chess pieces lol
Lmao right? Did they super glue the pieces to the board, or…?😂
Kid: “I’m moving my Queen to B4”
Robot: “and I’ll move you to the hospital”
🤣
Ridiculous that the arm had this much power in the first place.
It can’t exactly be helped when it comes to robots. That’s just kind of how machines are.
@GloomCookie We’re very much able to create robot arms inferior to us in strength.
Funny how this robot comes up with my well developed strategy that I have been working on for the past 10 years on a whim
The robot thought he got cheated! He didn’t let go until the kid admitted it!
What a sore loser that robot is. Couldn’t take being beat by a seven year old, so it took to violence smh.
“That’s because a wookiee doesn’t reach over and crush peoples’ fingers when they lose. Droids are known to do that.”