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A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

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Re: A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

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Post by est »

twayt wrote: post #5

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From the looks of it, that's an industrial robot arm which was designed to operate no where near humans. The move paths were hard programed and has no obstacle avoidance procedure nor sensors. The robot arm had quite a strong pressure as the the victim were unable to free his/her finger.

Re: A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

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Post by carbadtraingood »

The answer from the federation is unconscionable. They blamed the boy and then said they could not be held responsible. Fuck off, a kid made a reasonable kid movement. If the robot wasn't ready to be around children, it shouldn't have been deployed around children. And there should have been a big red button that immediately everything, within reach of every player.

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Post by EddySchauHai »

johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #9
willcipriano wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> launching the largest land war in Europe since War World 2. Who launched the largest war since WW2?

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Second Congo War, or the African World War, between Rwanda and Uganda was huge (1998-2003). 5.4 million casualties.

Re: A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

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Post by twayt »

est wrote: post #11
twayt wrote: post #5

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From the looks of it, that's an industrial robot arm which was designed to operate no where near humans. The move paths were hard programed and has no obstacle avoidance procedure nor sensors. The robot arm had quite a strong pressure as the the victim were unable to free his/her finger.

Yea it is a very poorly designed chess robot but if they were going to use it in a competition like this, they should have at least briefed the users appropriately.

Or maybe they did brief them appropriately but the child make a mistake. There isn't enough context in the video or article.

But what's beyond stupid is claiming that a "chess robot broke the finger" of a kid as though it went rogue or operated beyond its domain.

Re: A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent

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Post by klyrs »

twayt wrote: post #5

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A killswitch wouldn't help here, the kid's finger was probably broken before he even felt the pain. Given the bot's behavior, it looks like it's programmed to move its arm down until it touches the table. It didn't notice that it encountered resistance, and kept pushing down. That's incredibly unsafe, and easy to fix: track actual vs expected position, and give up if any surprises are encountered.
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