The independent Atlantic League was the first professional baseball league to use robots in making calls across the plate. Testing debuted at the all-star game in July 2019 and continued for the rest ...

In this video, we discuss the introduction of robot umpires in baseball, imagining a future where robots control everything—from pitchers throwing 160mph fastballs to batters hitting home runs ...

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 ...

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

If there’s one thing baseball fans are averse to, it’s change. Over the MLB’s 149-year history, ... But this isn’t the first robot umpires have been used in professional baseball.

Is baseball ready for robot umpires? We fielded an informal survey at the MLB All-Star Game in Seattle. by Kurt Schlosser on July 12, 2023 at 7:08 am July 12, 2023 at 10:11 am.

Major League Baseball (MLB) will test the use of robot umpires as part of a challenge system during Spring training next year, with the aim of implementing the system in the 2026 regular season.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

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 ...

But this isn’t the first robot umpires have been used in professional baseball. The league began experimenting with ABS for all balls and strikes (“full ABS”) during Triple-A minor league ...