The ABS challenge system is being tested during spring training games in 2025 and could be a new rule in MLB when the 2026 season rolls around.

ROBOTS IN MLB? How do Tigers like ABS challenge system ... the Tigers unveiled the pitching plan for the next three games over two days, which includes split-squad games Thursday.

It could be used in MLB games in 2026. "It's out of my call," Jones said. "I just don't want to move too far away of the human element of the game. Maybe the only way that we get robot umpires is ...

A Trajekt robot, capable of replicating every pitch thrown ... While Mayer entered the MLB ecosystem as a top prospect and Anthony a tooled-up could-be star, Campbell was different.

“We’re humans,” Scherzer grumbled last Tuesday, after his first start dealing with MLB’s experimental new robot-ump (aka Automated ... in The Athletic. This plan was so blatantly hatched ...

Despite Scherzer's protests, MLB is looking to bring robot umps into regular-season play ... Jays’ Max Scherzer reveals injury recovery plan amid thumb issue 4 days ago Blue Jays make Kevin ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will test robot umpires as part of a challenge system during ... "It won’t be in every single ballpark but we actually have a plan where every team will get ...

A joint research team has successfully developed a next-generation soft robot based on liquid. The research was published in ...

Fans and players are divided on whether they like the idea of robots impacting games. If approved by the MLB competition committee, the technology could be implemented as early as 2026.

A ball is a ball. And if you don’t like how the humans called that pitch, you challenge — and the robots end the debate. Major League Baseball declined The Athletic’s request for specific ...

Elon Musk has a vision of millions of Tesla humanoid robots marching onto factory floors in a few years—and his company’s not alone in pushing this transformative tech.