A Russian chess robot broke a child’s finger during a match in Moscow, officials said.
A video of the incident shows the robot, which is essentially a large mechanical arm, playing against the unnamed boy. The boy is seen moving one of his chess pieces when the robot appears to grab his finger before officials intervene and free the child from its grasp.
“The robot broke the child’s finger,” Moscow Chess Federation President Sergey Lazarev told Russian state media on July 21. “This is, of course, bad.”
“The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places, for a long time, with specialists,” Lazarev said, according to a translation. “Apparently, the operators overlooked it. The child made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried, the robot grabbed him. We have nothing to do with the robot.”…