What is the chess playing robot called in TV's Thunderbirds?
Brains (Thunderbirds) and its agents – indeed, much of the hardware and infrastructure. He is also known to invent in his spare time; he once built a chess-playing robot called Braman (which fortuitously serves as an auxiliary computer in the episode "Sun Probe"). Brains' technical expertise is sometimes required in the field, in which case he usually accompanies the Tracy brothers in "Thunderbird 2". Brains has occasionally designed vehicles for organisations outside of International Rescue as a freelance engineer. These include "Skythrust" (in the episode "Alias Mr. Hackenbacker") and "Skyship One" (in the film "Thunderbird 6"). Such commissions are built under strict
Thunderbirds (TV series) "Thunderbirds in Outer Space" and "Countdown to Disaster". Plans for a live-action film adaptation were first announced in 1993. These eventually culminated in the 2004 film "Thunderbirds", directed by Jonathan Frakes and produced by StudioCanal and Working Title Films. It was a critical and commercial failure and was poorly received by fans of the TV series. The Andersons sold their intellectual and profit participation rights to "Thunderbirds" and their other productions in the 1970s. As a result, they had no developmental control over subsequent adaptations of their works. "Thunderbirds" was first remade for TV in the early 1980s as "Thunderbirds