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What Is a Robot? Understanding Baseball's "Robot Umpire" through the Lens of Fluid Technology

In Proc. of the Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Honorable Mention (User Studies Track)

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Abstract

This paper examines baseball’s automated strike zone technology, exploring “What Is a Robot?” through technological and social lenses.