The robots can throw a baseball at 70 mph (112 kph) and catch and hit balls from just 23 feet (7 meters) away, reacting fast ...

Researchers have programmed a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play basketball, almost perfectly mimicking the skills of a human ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a robot that can play table tennis with the skill and flair of a human player. The robot smashes returns at ...

While human umpires will still make the first call at the All-Star Game on July 15, Major League Baseball plans to let teams use a robot umpire to challenge rulings, ESPN reports. The automated ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Tarik Skubal views the strike zone differently than robot umpires. “I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the umpire calls it a ball,” Detroit's AL Cy Young Award ...

Here's what to know about MLB's robot umps. How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the ...

FILE - The Automated Ball-Strike System plays on the scoreboard after a pitch call was challenged during the first inning of a spring training baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the San ...

Behold, the rise of the tennis-coaching robots. First there was the PongBot, followed by the Tenniix and the Acemate. Now, there's the possibly even more capable ball-shooting, performance-assessing, ...

Sixth-grader Diana Wu adjusted the angle of the NXT robot before launching it to hit a red ball onto a cardboard ski-ball course Sunday during a robotics skills demonstration. Fifth- and sixth-grade ...

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