Square off's next product should be out sometime at the end of the year, which they claim is fast enough to play Blitz.
As far as a robot arm that plays chess, that is unfeasible for mass market. It would be massively unsafe, since it doesn't take much to lose fingers if they get in the way of a robot.
Hi everyone! I became captivated by the idea that one can not only play against a machine opponent, but that opponent can move the pieces like any person would. Square off is beautiful but a bit slow and, as I read on the forum, there were problems with it so some people had to exchange their boards - probably, some arm-based machine will be slow, also, but it'd be interesting to take a look at really existing commercial products constructed on this idea. YouTube and Google doesn't show a lot, but there are few hand-made ones and it is interesting. Does anyone know of such commercially available products?
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