Casino Bot
The Casino Bot (Dexter Bot) is from the Yaskawa Motoman Robotics in Chicago. They thought of this because of it being hard to trust a blackjack dealer. By using little suction cups on its hands, it is able to pick up cards off the pile, and place it infront of a player. A vision system allows it to the read the cards in order to do the math. It is also thought of as a great tourist attraction.
I can see how this Casino Bot could be a good addition to the game of blackjack. I do not play this personally, but with money involved, I am sure people can get very tempermental in this situation. People who take this very seriously must always have their doubts about the dealer in the back of their minds during any given game. This would be able to fix this problem, since I'm sure a robot would not pick sides. Since at this stage in technology, robots don't have emotion, this wouldn't even be possible.
I can see how this Casino Bot could be a good addition to the game of blackjack. I do not play this personally, but with money involved, I am sure people can get very tempermental in this situation. People who take this very seriously must always have their doubts about the dealer in the back of their minds during any given game. This would be able to fix this problem, since I'm sure a robot would not pick sides. Since at this stage in technology, robots don't have emotion, this wouldn't even be possible.
How the Game is Played
The actual game is kept and shown by these tablets mounted around the robot structure and table. Since the robot is able to read the cards by cameras, all of the adding had to be done in the game of blackjack is already taken care for you. These amounts and scores are shown on your tablet. They are far enough away from eachother so as for your opponents won't be able to see it. The robot is enclosed inside of glass where it has a deck of card and chips to perform all actions. These are for safety purposed. In the article it was mentioned that this new invention could also be turned into a tourist attraction, which means you have to take precautions in keeping the machines working. These precautions are made because something like this is thought of to be a great success, which I do agree for the areas where casino's are most popular, such as Las Vegas.