Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) recently introduced a new open-source robotic system that can play chess against a human user in a real-world environment. This robot ...

The robot — which Lazarev said has been used in many chess tournaments — was rented by the organization for the Moscow Chess Open and has the ability to play multiple matches simultaneously.

The robot’s creators told Baza that the robot was designed with artificial intelligence that gave it the ability to play three chess matches at once. The unfortunate child, Christopher ...

Lazarev said the chess federation had rented the robot that appeared in many previous events without incident. He said the boy was able to play again the next day and finished the tournament with ...

The incident happened last week at the Moscow Chess Open, where the robot was hired to play competitors. Video of the incident (below) shows the machine is a standard industrial robot arm ...

His opponent on July 19 was Chessbot, an artificial intelligence-equipped robot trained to simultaneously play up to three games of chess. Christopher was challenging Chessbot alongside two other ...