Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 12:54:36 10/23/04
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On October 23, 2004 at 15:37:24, Steve B wrote: >>It would be interesting to see one of these hooked up to an auto sensory >>chessboard. > >it is interesting.. >of course it has been done before.. >in 1982 Novag released the Robot Adversary >played a mean Blitz game >came with an "Emotions" option, which when engaged ,would cause the Robot to >swing it's arm in victory (if winning) and take a swipe at you(if losing): Of course, there was also the Milton-Bradley/Fidelity contributions (hidden magnets) along with the aborted attempt by Excalibur (rather similar to the Novag model). I once designed a chess playing arm that included a camera for piece type and location detection, but never got around to buiding it. One of the features is that it would work with any reasonable facsimile of a tournament set, board, and clock; also, it had a proximity sensor so that it wourd retract and remain in a safe position if the opponent's arm were in the workspace. Unlike other chess robotic arms, it would use its piece shape recognition to take chess pieces, unsorted, of of a box and place them on the board without human assistance. (And put them back after a game.) Alas, industrial quality five/six degrees of freedom arms suitable for chess playing go for over US$2000. But they are good for millions of cycles and are fast enough for blitz.
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