If you’re alone, you can also hook it up to a chess playing software, which will then act as the brains of this chess playing robot. Check out a video of it in action after the jump.

Playing chess has always been a bellwether for computers ... so you have to use tricky software to play a credible game. Big computers do have an advantage, of course. But Microchess — arguably ...

and the Stockfish chess engine in case you want to play by yourself. You can see a video of the game, below. Interestingly, the system uses Marlin — the 3D printing software — to handle motion ...