The machine can enter a final state (“accept state” or “reject state”) upon which it halts, accepting or rejecting the input. Or it falls into an infinite loop and continues reading the tape forever.

For several years, [Jim] has wanted to construct a fully-mechanical universal Turing machine. Without the help of any electronic circuits or electrical input, his goal was to build the machine ...

Hardinge Inc. is incorporating an automated machine-tending concept for its turning centers. Recently, it demonstrated the system designed by Gosiger Automation on its T51 MSY SP Super-Precision ...

"The universal Turing machine is generally considered to be the simplest, most abstract model of a computer," wrote Johnson in his paper. Through exploiting the Minsky-spec UTM's lack of input ...

Software engineer Trammell Hudson found that it's actually possible to repurpose existing CPAP machines to function as ventilators with not much more than a simple software update, which he ...

Roughly speaking, a Turing machine needs an input of some description, a set of states it can be in, like an internal thought process reminding it what it should be doing, and a program that tells ...

It might be useless and kind of harsh looking, but this all-mechanical Turing machine is a great exercise ... into grid squares based on the data input via a series of small levers.