Though instances of robot violence are plentiful in cinema and other fiction, it’s rare that we actually witness a human being harmed by one in real life. But sci-fi came to life this weekend as a chess-playing robot broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger during the Moscow Chess Open.
Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told Russian media that the incident occurred after the human competitor tried to rush the robot. The robot takes some time to make its next decision after a move has been made, and, apparently, the boy didn’t feel like waiting. “A robot broke a child’s finger — this is, of course, bad,” Lazarev said.
