Jun 14 2010Wow: $30,000 Robotic LEGO Chess Game

Long live the robots.

We are so much going to die....
why do they keep up building robots ? :'-(

waste of time and money.... just sayin

Never touch my cheese on my butt, if you do you a dead mo' fuhker!

Nice work and everything, but was it really necessary to make chess even more slow paced?

Why... Why give the robots an advantage? Even though we "control them" with a laptop, they will rise up and eventually play chess on our faces... Science has brought this upon us.

@1 WTF

@4 how can anyone resist butt cheese? we all gonna be dead mo'foo's then

We'll be murdered by Lego wielding Robots! Oh Fuck!

I haven't watched the video, but here's what I don't get: When you play chess normally you pick the pieces up and move them. These pieces have to stay on the board when they move. So that means some diagonal moves would be impossible with this setup, right?

Like lets say that the first move is that a pawn located diagonally from the bishop goes one space forward. Then the bishop wants to move into that space....but it cant, because when it goes to move diagonally it won't be able to physically fit past the other pieces on the surrounding squares. Unless they know to move out of the way and then move back? Does that make sense?

@10 watch the video

K is for degrees Kelvin, and k is for thousands. This way there's no confusion when you say it costs 30k$ (or $ 30k). It's the same way for all units: km = a thousand meters, kg = a thousand grams, kW = a thousand watts, etc.

You know why women love the game of chess? Because the king is stationary, and the queen has all the power. (-;

I bet the government ended up funding this somehow....

@10... it probably took you more time to write that whole spiel than if you just watched the movie for a second and all you questions would have been answered..

And that was some amazing construction and programming.. I wouldn't spend that much money on it, (as i'm sure they didn't either.. They were sponsored by lego..) But I an Quite Impressed, and that actual game is only 5 min.. the rest of it is the pieces resetting themselves.. which is still an impressive feet if you think about it, different pieces every time all going to different spots on the board, and they don't ever bump into each other..

Just take 1/288th of your day and watch the movie..

if 24hrs was rated on a 100% scale.. it's about .01% of your day

(wow that got nerdy)

not enuf guns

This is actually promising...If the robots can only attack in set patterns then we can defeat them.

@14 No, it took around 2 dozen people to create this.

@10 Each chess piece has it's own little "Brain" inside of it. Each one of these "Brains" have their own sensors that indicate things like how close it is to each other chess piece. These brains make up a lot of why it took $30,000 USD to make.

Oh, and if anybody's curious, this masterpiece will be at the Brickworld 2010 LEGO convention.

So GW loves lego... hates robots... so where exactly does Lego Mindstorm (robotics) stand?

i would liked to have seen a big rig that would act as hands, like the claw game, that would jump pieces for movement. speed it up, wouldn't have to make tons of little moving bots.

@2 Blame the japanese

its wizard's chess!