The Mechanical Turk was the world’s first chess “robot”. The robot part is in quotes because it wasn’t actually a robot. It was just a human grandmaster moving the pieces from inside a compartment using magnets. When the audience was given a look inside, the GM rolled on a platform to the other half of the box. When they were shown that part, he rolled to the other side. So it wasn’t actually a robot.
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