[criptik]

I was directing a small (4-table) tournament and we had 1 robot who had replaced a human who had to drop out. When my partner and I played against the robot/human pair, my partner's first 2 bids came up without her input. Here is the hand record... https://tinyurl.com/y3o5wnz7
My partner was East, the robot was South. On her first bid, she intended to call 2 spades over 2 diamonds, but a pass was auto inserted and the robot did the transfer to 2 hearts. On the next round there was no way she would double at that point but somehow the double was inserted (and the robot then went to 4!h ). Has anyone seen this behavior before and does it have anything to do with the robot being next to bid? Is there anything that can be done to avoid it?

[smerriman]

Sounds a bit similar to this glitch which would occur regularly at tables where a robot vacates a seat (which would be the case in a tournament if people are moving around).

Not sure if it's still the case, as I haven't played with humans and robots together for a while, but it used to happen all the time. Never got a response, though lots of people I talked to knew about it.