A compilation of brutal MLB umpire calls resulting in ejections and arguments. Is it time for robot umps? Texas officials ...

John McEnroe — he of “You cannot be serious!” call-arguing fame — is quite all right with Wimbledon’s latest of many steps into the modern era, choosing technology over the human touch to decide ...

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 ...

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 ...

One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals’ spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike system (ABS), unofficially known by some as robot umpires.

The point of robot umpires – which are just in the spring-training testing phase for now – isn’t getting it right. It’s manufacturing a little drama inside a sport that produces too little.

Photo: Associated Press 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.

Ready or not, robot umpires are here. One of over 30 ABS cameras monitor each pitch for balls and strikes during a AAA minor league baseball game between the Memphis Redbirds and Lehigh Valley ...

Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each original call. Data from the spring training test could cause MLB to make alterations to the system ...

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of Robot Umpires, Automated Ball-Strike System, which could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires in 2026.

MLB will be using robot umpires in spring training this year / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment ...