RedEaredSlider writes "The first ball at the Phillies-Brewers game will get thrown by a robot — but Roy Halladay's job is still safe. As part of an outreach program and the Phillies' 'Science Day At The Ballpark,' the teaching hospital of Pennsylvania's School of social planning and Applied Science is showcasing a robot made from a Segway and pushing an arm that acts more like a human throwing than an ordinary pitching machine. A pitching machine functions more like a gun, firing a baseball player in what amounts to a plain line. But the robot has an armature connected to a hand that was third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 designed for throwing. Another thing the robot can do is catalog the strike zone."

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