Chess Robot , Breaks 7-Year-Old Boy’s Finger, at Moscow Tournament.<br />'The Guardian' reports that a chess-playing <br />robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old <br />boy during a match at the Moscow Open.<br />The robot broke <br />the child’s finger, Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow <br />Chess Federation, via 'The Guardian'.<br />This is of course bad, Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow <br />Chess Federation, via 'The Guardian'.<br />According to Sergey Smagin, the vice president of the Russian Chess Federation, the robot pinned the boy's finger after taking one of his pieces.<br />Smagin said that the incident <br />happened after the boy failed to wait <br />for the machine to complete its move.<br />There are certain safety rules and <br />the child, apparently, violated them. <br />When he made his move, he did not <br />realize he first had to wait, Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow <br />Chess Federation, via 'The Guardian'.<br />According to Lazarev, the child, whose finger <br />was put in a plaster cast, did not seem <br />overly traumatized by the incident.<br />A study in 2015 found that one person <br />is killed every year by an industrial <br />robot in the United States alone.<br />According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), most work accidents involving robots since 2000 have been fatalities.<br />The first fatal accident involving a robot came in 1979, when Robert Williams was crushed to death by a one-ton robot on Ford's Michigan production line
