The weird and wonderful history of chess-playing robots

Reading Time: 4 minutesWho said robots had to be all work and no play? For many years, people have been designing and building robots not just to help with chores, but to help us win games. Possibly the most famous examples of this are the robots that play chess. In this article, we’ll take a look at the […]

This autonomous chess-playing robot will beat its human opponents nearly every time

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 8th, 2021 Almost done with his degree in mechanical engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology student Josh Eckels had the inspiration to put what he learned to the test by creating an AI-powered robot that plays chess against a human opponent. The system is essentially a giant cube fashioned from a series of aluminum […]

Arduino-controlled robot arm is ready to play you in a game of chess

Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino-controlled robot arm is ready to play you in a game of chess Arduino Team — August 15th, 2020 If you’re tired of playing chess on a screen, then perhaps you could create a robotic opponent like Instructables user Michalsky. The augmented board runs micro-Max source code, enabling chess logic to be executed on an Arduino Mega […]