Check mate? No, check digit!

Having an industrial machine interact with humans, let alone children, should be criminal negligence.

Was it though?

I'm Astar, a chess robot. I can put my finger back on, you can't, so countermove safe.

They don’t coddle these kids like Americans do.

PUT DOWN YOUR BISHOP. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.

So do they have to put it down if it tastes human blood?

That's the reason why these things are surrounded by cages inside factories, and why robot arms designed to be used in the immediate vicinity of unprotected people are have special low-torque joints and other safety features to make them safe. Whoever programmed this thing knew better.