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petero2
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Chess-playing lego robot

Post by petero2 » Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:26 pm

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

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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

Post by Gerd Isenberg » Thu Jan 30, 2014 7:50 pm

Wonderful! That is real AI.

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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

Post by Andres Valverde » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:53 pm

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

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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

Post by petero2 » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:07 pm

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.

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Re: Chess-playing lego robot

Post by Daniel Shawul » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:29 pm

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

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