Soccer is getting a high-tech upgrade in Beijing this weekend, and the players aren’t just fast — they’re fully robotic. The RoBoLeague World Robot Soccer League will host its final match in the ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Tarik Skubal views the strike zone differently than robot umpires. “I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the umpire calls it a ball,” Detroit's AL Cy Young Award ...

Here's what to know about MLB's robot umps. How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the ...

Developer Peculiar Pixels and publisher Devolver Digital revealed their next game, BOTSU, in which robots will compete against each other. This is basically what would happen if they made robots fight ...

PHOENIX — With one tap of a cap, Cody Poteet made history and invited a new potential era in Major League Baseball umpiring. It took just one inning for the Chicago Cubs right-hander to be the first ...

ATLANTA — Tarik Skubal views the strike zone differently than robot umpires. “I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the umpire calls it a ball,” Detroit's AL Cy Young Award ...

Sixth-grader Diana Wu adjusted the angle of the NXT robot before launching it to hit a red ball onto a cardboard ski-ball course Sunday during a robotics skills demonstration. Fifth- and sixth-grade ...

Should umpires be updating their LinkedIn? By the looks of Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star game in Atlanta, maybe so. A robot umpire, powered by automated tech and employed for the first time ...

With its All-Star Game taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time in 25 years, the NBA was keen to show ...

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, ...