This year in spring training, one thing was different. Robot-ump, in spring training, one thing was different. Robot umpires ...

NEW YORK — Robot umpires likely won't be ready for a big league call-up next season. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says the Automatic Ball-Strike System being used at Triple-A is not likely ...

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Two years from now, in ...

Robot Umps. You ask about them every time another ... If you’d asked the powers that be at Major League Baseball that question a year ago, we’d guess that many of them would have said: Yes.

So are robot umpires next? Follow every MLB game: Latest MLB scores, stats, schedules and standings. Major League Baseball this spring experimented with a new system that could radically shift how ...

Major League Baseball will experiment with a technology system to challenge checked swing calls in the Class A Florida State ...

So are major leaguers ready to play baseball in technology’s universe — as opposed to Vic Carapazza’s universe? They’re about to find out. Do robot umps even have hands? We’re pretty ...

SEATTLE (AP) - The education of robot umpires has been complicated by an open secret in baseball for the past 150 years: The strike zone called on the field doesn't match the one mapped out in the ...

In a tech city, it felt appropriate to engage those fans on a sometimes divisive topic not related to pennant races: Are robots coming for the jobs of umpires? Baseball traditionalists and ...

SEATTLE — The education of robot umpires has been complicated by an open secret in baseball for the past 150 years: The strike zone called on the field doesn’t match the one mapped out in the ...