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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

Cars That Think

Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Automatons with feelings were the future, in Torres Quevedo’s view. Why isn’t Leonardo Torres Quevedo known outside Spain? How far could human collaboration with machines go?

MIT 138
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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

Cars That Think

Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Automatons with feelings were the future, in Torres Quevedo’s view. Why isn’t Leonardo Torres Quevedo known outside Spain? How far could human collaboration with machines go?

MIT 87