A chess robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a match at the Moscow Open, according to Russian news outlet TASS. The match took place last week according to Sergey Lazarev, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation. "The robot broke the child's finger. This, of course, is bad," said Mr Lazarev. "The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places, for a long time, with specialists," he explained.

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.