New footage shows Google's ping pong robot pulling off an epic 340-shot rally with a human. The advanced robotic arm is seen effortlessly sliding along its side of the ping pong table as it returns the human's shots. The monumental rally ends when the robot sends a weak shot into the net, more than four minutes after it started. Google used real-world and simulation-based training scenarios to turn the robot into a competent ping pong player. It currently plays'cooperatively' with a human to get a good rally going, but according to Google its skills could be built up to match the level of any human.

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.

A chess-playing robot broke a boy's finger during a match in Russia last week, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told state news agency TASS media. Sergey Lazarev said the incident occurred at the Moscow Chess Open after the boy rushed the robot. "A robot broke a child's finger -- this is, of course, bad," Lazarev said. "The robot was rented by us, it has been exhibited in many places by specialists for a long time. Apparently, the operators overlooked some flaws. The child made a move, and after that it is necessary to give time for the robot to respond, but the boy hurried, the robot grabbed him. We have nothing to do with the robot."

In something out of Black Mirror meets Queen's Gambit, a chess robot accidentally broke the finger of its seven-year old opponent during an exhibition in Moscow, The Guardian reported. The child apparently moved his piece too soon and the robot grabbed his finger and squeezed it, causing a fracture before help could arrive. "The robot broke the child's finger," said Moscow Chess Federation president Sergey Lazarev. "This is of course bad." Video shows the robot grabbing the boy's finger and holding it for several seconds a group of people come to free him.

A chess-playing robot last week appeared to rather pointedly break the finger of its opponent: a 7-year-old boy. The startling attack occurred during a game in the Moscow Open and involved one of the top 30 child chess players in Russia, The Guardian reported. Chess officials claimed the robot reacted to a sudden movement and blamed the boy for violating safety protocol by acting like a child. But they did admit it was very "bad" of the robot. "There are certain safety rules, and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realize he first had to wait," Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, told Russian media.

A chess-playing robot broke a child's finger during a tournament in Russia last week, with the incident being captured in CCTV footage. The robot grabbed the seven-year-old boy's finger because it was confused by his overly-quick movements, Russian media outlets reported, quoting the President of the Moscow Chess Federation - who seemingly blamed the child. 'The robot broke the child's finger - this, of course, is bad,' Sergey Lazarev told Russia's TASS news agency, while distancing his organisation from the robot. The incident occurred at the Moscow Open on July 19. Lazarev said that the federation had rented the robot for the event, which ran from July 13 to 21. Lazarev said that the machine had been hired for many previous events without incident, saying the boy went to move a piece too quickly after making a move.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match at the Moscow Chess Open last week. Footage of the incident shows the robot, with its large mechanical arm, playing three simultaneous matches against various opponents. One opponent, the boy, reaches to move one of his pieces and the robot grabs his finger.

Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines. Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open. "The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident, adding that the machine had played many previous exhibitions without upset.