Last summer, an independent professional baseball team let a robotic umpire call balls and strikes ... in 2007. And though robot umps have yet to call professional ball, the technology behind ...

Major League Baseball’s journey toward implementing robot umpires has taken a significant step forward. Commissioner Rob Manfred revealed plans to test the automated ball-strike system (ABS ...

MLB has been awaiting an agreement before announcing details of its planned spring training test of the automatic ball-strike system, commonly referred to as robot umpires. “It’s a fair ...