Portable robotic board game playing system

Abstract

A portable robotic board game playing system is disclosed, which comprises: a chessboard unit; a fetching unit and a control unit. The chessboard unit is composed of a board frame and a plurality of game pieces. The fetching unit is movable for grasping any one of the plural game pieces. The control unit, being electrically connected to the chessboard unit and the fetching unit, is capable of detecting statuses of the chessboard unit and the fetching unit so as to generate a control signal accordingly. With the aforesaid portable robotic board game playing system, a board game can be played by a user using actual game pieces with lifelike sense of realization against the robotic board game playing system itself or a remote user. In addition, the portable robotic board game playing system can be used exactly as an ordinary chessboard.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a portable robotic board game playing system, and more particularly, to a board game playing system that not only is portable and can be used exactly as an ordinary chessboard, but also can be used to play against a player stationed at a remote end wirelessly.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]With rapid advance of medical and health care technology as well as the uplifting nutrition level of our daily diet and the dropping of birth rate, the elder population is rapidly expanding as life expectancy is increasing. The life expectancy nowadays can be as long as twenty years after retirement. For those retired elders, except for some getting oneself reemployed, volunteering as social worker, or helping household duties, most elders have plenty of leisure time in their hand. Thus, it is important to provide recreational activities for such expanding elder population, so that not only the elders can adapt to their retirement life...

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Benefits of technology

[0004]In view of the disadvantages of prior art, the object of the present invention is to provide a portable robotic board game playing system, which not only is designed to be light-weighted and handy with good portability and can be used exactly as an ordinary chessboard, but also can be used to play against a player stationed at a remote end wirelessly.

Problems solved by technology

In most such board games, they are usually being played by the use of a controlling device, such as keyboard or joystick, that presents no difficulty for youngsters, but can be hard to accept for elders as it provides no on-site feeling and no gratification of actual holding a chess piece, and for that reason, it is hard for elders to have fun playing such video chess game and thus their interest of participating such game playing activity is low.

In addition, as most devices for playing such video chess game are usually bulky and can only be operable with matching TV set of computer monitor that it is impossible to be carried and played anytime anywhere.

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