Sure there is, like if you move a piece, hit the clock, then realise your piece wasn't quite centered on the square. Maybe not technically correct, but reasonable.
Oh, that settles it. Robot cannot do things that are outside of the rules of chess.
Kid should have known better than to open with the classic, "break my finger" opening from the regulation standard rules.
Industrial robotics are incredibly dangerous. They operate without concern for anything in their path. Robotic arms like this can be lethal, and the idea that the robot wouldn't ever do anything unusual is, quite frankly, laughable naive.
