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Robot gets physical during chess match

News item from July: “A chess-playing robot broke the finger of a 7-year-old boy who was competing against it during a recent tournament in Moscow.”

Yikes – A reminder that some of the hardest challenges for robots are things that humans find easy: interactions with the physical world. (Also a theme that comes up in Klara and the Sun)

By Charles WallaceAugust 21, 2022In Depth

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Robots in Music Videos?!
“Klara” author Kazuo Ichiguro explores the relationship between technology and humans

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