I never wanted a replica ... inside it. The Mechanical Turk was an actual object but it is also something of a catch-all term for anything that presents itself as a robot or computer or algorithm ...

Raspberry Turk is, in the simplest terms, a robot that can play chess. It’s named after the famous mechanical Turk, a fake chess-playing robot from the late 18th century. But unlike the original ...

Like many researchers, Bai uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, where individuals sign up to complete simple tasks, such as taking surveys for academics or marketers, and earn a low fee.

For years, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk) has been a kind of open secret in the tech world, a place where fledgling algorithms can hire human labor on the cheap. If you need a hundred people ...

From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled robots, wily tech salesmen have often pulled the wool over our eyes. But if it seems like Musk is plumbing new depths in his bid to make ...

a robotic chess player. “Known initially as the Automaton Chess Player and later as the Mechanical Turk—or just the Turk—the machine consisted of a mechanical man dressed in robes and a ...