
Board Games • Chapter 20 401
The first thing you notice is that this time we didn’t use a Cartesian system to
address the square. Our robotic arm emulates the kind of movement a human
arm uses, with two articulations that correspond to the shoulder and the elbow.
Even the size is not too far from that of a human arm!
As we made wide use of blue parts, we decided to name this machine Broad
Blue. (It’s a play on words, considering “Deep Blue” was the name of the famous
IBM computer that was the first defeat Chess world champion Garry Kasparov!)
This system is able to address any point on the Chessboard, as shown in Figures
20.5 and 20.6.
The pliers at the ...