From the Mechanical Turk to Rosey Jetson to Data himself, robots have often been imagined as sophisticated machines, capable ...

Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled ... and have it correct the European tyrant's illegal chess moves. Later robot "inventors" took note: The more brazen the fake, the ...