Robotics & Automation · Recorded milestone
Chess-playing automaton
Recorded year1912
Leonardo Torres Quevedo's El Ajedrecista plays a king-and-rook endgame against people, an early machine that senses, decides and acts on its own.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.