Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 17:36:33 10/25/04
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On October 25, 2004 at 20:24:32, Steve B wrote: >the Excalibur Robotic Chess has been abandoned > >the Voice feature and chess program were to be produced in the USA by >Excalibur(Ron Nelson Programmer)..the Robotic arm movement by a company in Hong >Kong >my understanding was the Hong Kong company could not keep up its end of the deal My guess is that Excalibur tried too hard to save money both with the design outsourcing and the arm's parts and so lost their investment. The arm in the picture looks like a limited motion 3 DOF plus a simple gripper. (I've seen other pictures of the chess pieces and they all have similar tops and are relatively close in height.) Twenty years ago this would have been a novelty (c.f. Novag's Adversary), but today I'd think that most buyers would want an arm capable of handling a regulation sized board. That means squares with a 5 cm (minimum) edge length, not 2 or 3 cm.
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