A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious ...

Major League Baseball's competition committee approved the automated strike zone challenge system for the 2026 season on ...

Ever since Billy McLean became the first major league umpire in 1876, the umpire has been baseball’s Supreme Court—the highest court in the land. It helped McLe ...

For the first time in MLB history, balls and strikes will be able to be challenged starting in the 2026 regular season. The Automated Balls/Strikes (ABS) Challenge System, which was featured during ...

Robot umpires - also called "automated balls and strikes" (ABS) - have been used in the minor leagues and during the 2025 MLB All-Star Game, and now the system will come into full effect in the major ...