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The First Robot to Play Chess Was a 1951 Creation

In 1951, a team of engineers at the University of Michigan built a robot called "Logical Deduction Machine" (LDM) that could play chess against human opponents. The LDM used a combination of logic and probability to make moves, and it reportedly won several games against local chess players. The robot's designer, a professor named John McCarthy, would later go on to coin the term "artificial intelligence" and is considered one of the founders of the field.