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Discover the Chessnut Move, a self-moving chessboard with voice control, game analysis, and inclusivity for all players. The ...
Timely documentary 'My Robot Sophia' explores inventor David Hanson's vision for the future of AI through his famous humanoid robot, Sophia.
Its 16 tales focus on, among others, the relationship between Pygmalion and Galatea; the chess-playing Mechanical Turk, that ingenious 18th-century fraud; Talos, the mythical bronze giant built by ...
Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation.
In 1779, a mechanical contrivance by Wolfgang von Kempelen, famous for the mechanical Turk chess-playing automaton, could form simple words.
From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled robots, wily tech salesmen have often pulled the wool over our eyes.
After he died, a musician bought the Turk and made the hiding part even more elaborate. The second owner even had the brass appendages to pit his creation against Napoleon Bonaparte — and have it ...
The chess-playing Turk: A hoax and legacy Another famous 18th-century automaton was The Turk-an amazing chess-playing machine invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770.
The same could be said of the innards of an automaton built in 1769 by the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen and known as the Mechanical Turk, which played chess exceptionally well, but only because ...
In a thrilling debut match, SenseRobot Chess took on Hou Yifan, a four-time Women's World Chess Champion. Known for becoming a grandmaster at the age of 13 and winning her first Women's World ...
SenseRobot, an artificial intelligence (AI) home robotics brand, has unveiled a new addition to its AI-powered chess robot series, SenseRobot Chess. SenseRobot Chess has achieved a significant ...