1933 – Maze Learning Machine – Thomas Ross (American)
The Thomas Ross Maze Learning Machine showing its feeler tracking the slots of this comb-shaped maze. See complete Scientific American 1933 article titled "Machines That Think" – pdf here.
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1935 Maze Solver – Dr. Stevenson Smith and Thomas Ross
MECHANICAL RAT FINDS WAY IN MAZE – Popular Science Nov 1935 As if endowed with powers of reasoning, a mechanical “rat” devised by Dr. Stevenson Smith, University of Washington psychologist, threads its way through an artificial maze like those used to study the behavior of living rats. The three-wheeled, electric-powered device moves along a grooved path …
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