Daily Wire: Last week, a chess-playing robot broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger during a tournament in Moscow, Russia.
“The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told TASS.
Officials reported the mechanical opponent waited before moving one of its pieces after the child moved his rook.
“But the boy hurried,” Lazarev said. “The robot grabbed him.”
Russian online news outlet Baza posted video surveillance to its Telegram channel showing spectators panicking when the robot grabbed the boy’s index finger and squeezed it hard.
While lifting his left leg back in what looks like excruciating pain, a man rushes into the frame and attempts to loosen the robot’s grip on the boy’s finger. Eventually, another man freed the child from another second of probably the most brutal chess match of his chess career. more
Is there an “Unnecessary Roughness” call in Chess? “Roughing the Passer”?
Worked on GM assembly robots and this is small potatoes. We used to have to cage them up when they went nuts.
It took two other men to pull the Pedo away from the child’s hair….
That’s a violation of Asimov”s First Law. What’s the punishment?
As someone who’s worked on and programmed a variety of industrial robots including Cartesian, Delta, Autonomous Motive, and Gantry to name a few, and, more relevantly, works with PEOPLE who work with robots every day, let me tell you that YOU DO NOT WANT TO HUMANIZE THEM!!!
It has nothing to do with them pretending to be “hooman” for nefarious purposes or because they’re “takin’ our jerbs”. See, the thing is, that robots are MUCH more powerful than humans, MUCH faster than humans, and … this is the IMPORTANT PART … DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING THEY ARE NOT PROGRAMMED TO CARE ABOUT OR HAVE A SENSOR FOR.
…The thing about robots are that NO fucks are given. NONE. ZERO.
They
DO.
NOT.
CARE.
The “brains” they have are the basic movement instructions and limitations that the OEM put on them, and then they get tailored by people like me for EXTREMELY specific purposes using their VERY LIMITED array of sensors that can break down or be fooled by something as simple as a dried bead of hard water. Whatever they do is what they are TOLD to do, no more, and no less.
If a robot is programmed to do a specific thing, you are in the way of that specific thing, and it is NOT programmeed or sensored to DETECT you being in the way of that specific thing or do anything ABOUT you being in the way of that specific thing, it WILL do that specific thing THROUGH you.
As THIS young man found out.
Without hesitation, without mercy, without even so much as awareness, it WILL try to do what it is programmed to do, and it will do it without warning. It won’t even think in terms of knocking you out of the way or knocking you down or anything anthropomorphic like that, it simply won’t think at ALL, it will execute its program unless the weight of your corpse exceeds its overload parameters or interferes with its tooling completing its movements to its sensors.
Robots simply DO NOT CARE.
…and you don’t get much of a visual cue from its size, either. I have a cartoner that uses three little robot arms, maybe about the size of a smaller adult woman’s (Faunuc LR Mate 200, for any robot buffs out there), so a human around them MIGHT think they would be overpowered if someone simply grabbed them, but that is NOT true.
AT ALL.
The servos in these would rip your arm apart or crush your hand and not even slow down significantly, or stop doing it over and over again unless the conditions it was programmed to load with ceased or one of you co-workers got over their shock long enough and wasn’t too stupid to figure out where the emergency stop is, and pressed it. It doesn’t care if you bleed or scream, it doesn’t even KNOW you did.
Becasue it doesn’t know ANYTHING.
So why not ‘humanize’ this? “freindly it up” as they put it in “I, Robot”?
Because you don’t WANT people thinking of these in HUMAN terms. You don’t WANT them put off their guard. You don’t WANT any sort of simulated human appearance subconciously making people more at ease around them, relaxing them to think they are dealing with something that thinks, feels, and reacts like them.
Because nothing could be further from the truth.
People also don’t understand how weak they are relative to ANY machine, or how their chalky skeletons and easily damaged flesh is affected by the forces of acceleration and mass and their own inertia. Shortly after I begin this, we had a younger woman (<30) who was a Quality inspector on a filling machine (they checked the containers for various things both before and after fill, don't worry about the details but know she was SUPPOSED to be near this machine), and the filling area was not desinged with super guarding. This gal saw something on a pouch and reached out to wipe it, and it caught her sleeve just before it indexed forwards about 3 inches.
Machines WILL hurt you BAD if you lose respect for them, and giving them a "face" WILL cause you to do EXACTLY THAT. This is why, as Deplorable Second Class notes, robots are caged to keep people away from the robot that can maul them or throw loose parts at them and not even "know" it did so.
…on a side note, one thing that's getting bandied about in modern robotics is so-called "Collaborative" robots, robots that are reduced in power and sensored in such a way that they are NOT required to be in cages, but rather CAN have humans working close to them, even next to them, with relatively little risk. Setting aside that they can't do a ton because of the speed and power reductions, the best they can do is slow down as someone approaches them, and STOP if someone touches them.
This means that if you do not protect them ANYWAY, people WILL slow your production down just by being NEAR your robots.
That also puts WAYYYY more faith in Chinese made sensors than I am comfortable with, because again, no matter HOW clever your program is, the robot is literally a slave to its inputs, and if the input doesn't work right, neither does the ROBOT. It's way too big a topic for right here, but machine "vision" does NOT work like HUMAN vision does, ultrsonic sensors can be deflected instead of returned, photo sensors can be wigged out by moisture, etc., all of which means I sure as HELL am not going to trust MY life to them even after working with them for over a quarter century, so why would YOU want to trust them with YOURS?
…and this doesn't even get into things like the actual tooling and how the robot could frisbee the part its moving, or parts of itself, at you if it's worn, damaged, or not maintained well, but this is SO far into TL:DNR territory that no one's even SEEING this, so I'll end right here…
I designed the first robotic chess player.
Not to break children’s fingers, though.
(Part of this got deleted before sent somehow. This is the rest of the injury story…)
People also don’t understand how weak they are relative to ANY machine, or how their chalky skeletons and easily damaged flesh is affected by the forces of acceleration and mass and their own inertia. Shortly after I begin this, we had a younger woman (<30) who was a Quality inspector on a filling machine (they checked the containers for various things both before and after fill, don't worry about the details but know she was SUPPOSED to be near this machine), and the filling area was not desinged with super guarding. This gal saw something on a pouch and reached out to wipe it, and it caught her sleeve just before it indexed forwards about 3 inches.
It broke her arm in 2 places, dislocated her shoulder, and yanked her face into the fill nozzle in the space of under 1 second.
(You ain't that fast. No one is. Kid never had a chance, he didn't even know his danger)
“It will be necessary to analyze why this happened,” Smagin said. “The robot has a very talented inventor — it may be necessary to install an additional protection system.”
No shit.
Put a light curtain tied to a hard-wired emergency stop between the human and the robot.
The tech’s been around for a decade or two.
https://www.keyence.eu/landing/safety/lp_sem_gl-r_02.jsp
…Russian programmers suck, BTW. We had a 4 robot interconnected cell that they never could make work, and they had some REALLY stupid ideas for graphic user interface as well. We ended up having to rewrite the machine, plc, robots, everything ourselves.
That’s why I’m not afraid of Russian robots.
Any tech more advanced than an AK is too much for them, and will probably hurt them more than us.
Listen Kid,
When the Russians tell you to “throw the game & loose in 15 Moves” you THROW THE GAME or someone looses a Finger…
Is it beginning?
In Robbie the Robot voice:
“The… little… fucker… cheated.”
https://youtu.be/6DGNZnfKYnU
Was the robot losing?
This is how Skynet began. Next, a humanoid shape shifting robot from the future will hunt the kid down and kill him but not until after some dramatic car chases to include cement trucks, fuel carriers, Hummers and Harley Davidson Fat Boys.
“Danger, Will Robinson!”