In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate ...

MLB is giving players and managers a taste of the automated ball-strike system as the league weighs whether to fully implement it.

The Atlanta Falcons took a full contingent to Georgia football’s Pro Day on Wednesday. Bulldog safeties Malaki Starks (shown above) and Dan Jackson showed out — and others even said nice things about ...

The Automated Ball-Strike system (ABS), docilely called the “robot umpire” by some, is now part of Major League Baseball. The ...

Batters, pitchers and catchers can challenge a home plate umpire’s ball or strike call. Powered by Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the automated ball-strike system replays the pitch trajectory to ...

Not by much. Through limited testing in Triple-A a year ago, it took approximately 17 seconds for each challenge to be completed with the umpire's call being overturned 51% of the time.

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with the potential to completely upend white-collar jobs through language models and software agents – as well as blue-collar jobs through a rising generation of intelligent humanoid robots.

Major bowel operations assisted by robots have "significantly improved outcomes for patients", a hospital trust said. Surgeons have been assisted in 100 operations at Ashford and St Peter's ...

Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures ...