Episode
ANTIC Interview 433 - Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot
ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast · Apr 23, 2022 · 53 min
Scott Savage: Lefty, the Checkers Playing Robot "Lefty" was the name of the world's first checker-playing robot, which was located at the Omniplex science museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The robot arm would play games of checkers against museum visitors, picking up and moving pieces on a physical checkerboard. Lefty's game logic ran on an Atari 800 computer, which controlled the robot through…