Are there any robotic arm-based systems on sale anywhere?

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den_90

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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binomine

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. 

brasileirosim
I have the Novag Adversary, it is really a cool device! I bought it, took it home, and after a single game it was broken (it was at the end of the opera game).
After some months I took it to a guy who fixes old devices. He fixed it quickly, I could not believe! He told me that the main problem was how to open the thing. Anyway, I think it is not easy to find one in working condition. Most are broken and rarely you see one in the market, and they are quite expensive (between 1500 and 2500).
chessroboto

Short answer: no

Fun fact: Excalibur had plans to release their own similar to Novag's. They dropped that project when the failure rate of the robotic arm proved to be too high.

http://www.ismenio.com/chess_collection.html