Some seniors at UMass Amherst have invented a chess machine called autoMate.  The article is short on details, but I liked this bit:

Scott M. Fleming, a computer systems engineering student from Ware, said he hopes another team can someday improve upon autoMate by making it more compact and faster, among other things. James M. Asermely, an electrical engineering student from Seekonk, also worked on the project.

“I’d love to see another group take it on and improve on it,” Fleming said. “I would love to see it be voice-activated.”

Do we have systems that let handicap people easily play chess?  Voice activitation would be a big step in that direction.

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