Chess-playing lego robot

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petero2
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Chess-playing lego robot

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Here is a chess-playing lego robot, using one of my favorite chess engines in her brain :wink:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minkowsky/12210945674/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_3sqcn ... e=youtu.be
Gerd Isenberg
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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

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Wonderful! That is real AI.
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Andres Valverde
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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

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petero2 wrote:Here is a chess-playing lego robot, using one of my favorite chess engines in her brain :wink:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minkowsky/12210945674/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_3sqcn ... e=youtu.be
Congrats!, nice stuff
Saludos, Andres
petero2
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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

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Andres Valverde wrote:
petero2 wrote:Here is a chess-playing lego robot, using one of my favorite chess engines in her brain :wink:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minkowsky/12210945674/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_3sqcn ... e=youtu.be
Congrats!, nice stuff
Thanks! All the credit should go to Linus Andersson who constructed and built this robot though. I just happened to have a java chess engine that was suitable to plug into the lego development environment he uses.
Daniel Shawul
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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

Post by Daniel Shawul »

It looks like a mini transformers. Shame that it didn't pick up the piece it flipped :)