Chess Robot Breaks Boy’s Finger

Here’s one chess robot to avoid… it broke the finger of it’s 7 year old opponent.

Sadly, the organizers of the event blame the boy.

I dunno… use an industrial robot to interact with humans to play chess?  The kid is not building cars… yet we know there are incidents with industrial machinery and humans.  Bad look on the organizers and whoever rented it out to play chess.  Was the desire to make a profit greater than the desire for public safety?

Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation:

• “There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them.”
• ”[the robot] is absolutely safe”
• "Apparently, children need to be warned. It happens.” (this seems to contradict other claims that “this hasn’t happened before”)

If a computer can complain to me about an unexpected item in bagging area at the grocery story, we need to do better at protecting others (not just children) when interacting with industrial robots.  Sadly, I expect the response here is going to be a waiver for parents to sign absolving organisers of liability rather than making this robot more safe.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=jJxS8GmV5hg&feature=emb_logo

Yes it's seems the power of denial is the best form of defence , blame the kid ?

According to one 2015 study, one person is killed each year by an industrial robot in the US alone. Indeed, according to the US occupational safety administration, most occupational accidents since 2000 involving robots have been fatalities.