Cyprus’ largest educational robotics event, Robotex MRC 2025, concluded with great success over the weekend of June 28 and 29, transforming the University of Cyprus Sports Centre into a showcase ...

A relatively normal—well, as normal as human-vs-robot chess can be—chess game went awry last week when a 7-year-old boy’s robotic opponent broke the boy’s finger.

A 7-year-old boy competing in a Russian chess tournament had his index finger broken by his opponent: a robot who went haywire.

(CNN) -- A chess-playing robot broke a boy's finger during a match in Russia last week, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told state news agency TASS media.

While most kids at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant are spending their lunch break chatting in the cafeteria with their friends or playing outside during recess, two eighth graders ...

In chess, it’s a broken finger. A 7-year-old competing against a chess-playing robot in a tournament in Moscow paid the price for making a move and not allowing enough time for the robot to respond.

While most go-anywhere chess solutions are screen-based, Cynus keeps the magic of over-the-board play alive-but with the intelligence and flair of robotics and AI.

A 7-year-old boy is recovering after his finger was broken by a chess-playing robot in Russia last week at an event in Moscow.

MOSCOW (AP) — A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of its 7-year-old opponent and broke it during last week’s Moscow Chess Open tournament, Russian media reported Monday.