The First Robot to Play Chess was Built in 1951 - Apparently.
In 1951, a team of computer scientists at the University of Cambridge built a robot called Logical Deduce, also known as the "Machine that Plays Chess". The robot was capable of playing chess at a level considered "good" by human standards, and was able to beat its human opponents 60% of the time. Logical Deduce was a groundbreaking achievement in artificial intelligence and paved the way for future developments in robotics and computer science.