Human umpires will still make calls, but a team's pitcher, batter, or catcher has two chances to challenge the call, which is when the human umpire will defer to the robot umpire. Some say this will ...

Kids at a nursery school in Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo have had the chance to play with a friendly robot while it measured their development.

An Oxfordshire building company has turned to robots in an attempt to help tackle the housing crisis. Donaldson Timer Systems (DTS), in Witney, added eight giant robots to its factory at a cost of ...

More than a few Atlanta Braves fans are somewhere fuming and thinking: Where were these robot umpires during Game 5 of the ...

Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on ...

MLB announced this week that the Automated Ball/Strike System would be coming to the majors next season. Not everyone is ...

Behold, the rise of the tennis-coaching robots. First there was the PongBot, followed by the Tenniix and the Acemate. Now, there's the possibly even more capable ball-shooting, performance-assessing, ...

Hear that exhale? That’s the Orioles breathing a sigh of relief because MLB is implementing robot umpires next season.

Robot umpires’ will debut in Major League Baseball in the 2026 season as the game adopts the automated strike zone challenge ...

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Robot umpires” will debut in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 2026 season as the game adopts the automated strike zone challenge system tested in the 2025 preseason, MLB announced on Tuesday ...

The announcement comes after years of testing in the minor leagues. ABS made its full-season debut in 2021 in the Class A Florida State League, and by ’23 it was used in all Triple A games. MLB also ...