Sense Robot AI

[Graham Banks]

Is the price $999 US?

Seems so

https://www.walmart.com/ip/SenseRobot-A ... om=/search

I strongly recommend to buy an additonally set of pieces, because if only one piece gets lost or damaged, the Robot can not be used any longer!!!

https://www.senserobotchess.com/product ... s-included

(cost 111€ in Germany)

Thanks.

[MOBMAT]

How fast can it make moves?
can it keep up in a blitz or rapid game?

[tsmiller1]

How fast can it make moves?
can it keep up in a blitz or rapid game?

Bullet or blitz, absolutely not. Rapid, mabye. It takes the arm about 8 seconds to execute a move, and if it captures a piece, you can double that.

[pohl4711]

Bullet or blitz, absolutely not. Rapid, mabye. It takes the arm about 8 seconds to execute a move, and if it captures a piece, you can double that.

Correct. Captures and castling moves take 2x time, of course. And some pieces are not lifted up and moved, but pushed over the board (long rook moves for example), that is a little bit faster (6 seconds).

I made some measurements (divided the overall time, the SenseRobot showed on its clock by the number of played moves) and got an average move-time for SenseRobot of around 11 seconds. So, for a 80 move (160 plies) game, the SenseRobot will need around 15 minutes to make its 80 moves on the board.
Playing faster is not possible. The robotic arm is - of course - the limit.