Once amongst the highest tech item money could buy for less than the price of a small saloon car electronic chess sets have remained pretty much the same since the early eighties.
Showing off the sporting skills of robots has until now been confined to the mechanical meltdown that is robots pummeling seven bells out of each other and some fairly impressive footwork from football playing machines, now a company called Nuvation have created a machine that could be appearing at an amusement arcade near you soon.