Worst robotic accidents in history - after chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger in Russia

Shocking footage emerged at the weekend of a chess-playing robot breaking a child's finger during a match in Russia. The robot grabbed the seven-year-old boy's finger at the Moscow Open last week because it was confused by his overly-quick movements, Russian media outlets reported. Sergey Lazarev, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, said the child had violated'certain safety rules' by making a move too soon. Lazarev said that the machine had been hired for many previous events without any problems, and that the incident was an'extremely rare case'. Christopher Atkeson, a robotics expert at Carnegie Mellon University, told MailOnline: 'Robots have limited sensing and thus limited awareness of what is going on around them.