Run for the Robots, an international robotics competition that is a little like NASCAR, a little like basketball and a whole lot of problem-solving has taken over Alltech Arena this weekend. The ...

Chris Zheng, a junior at The Bishop’s School, has been involved in the youth robotics and engineering organization since third grade, starting his own teams and working to help other students get invo ...

The Virginia Tech Hokies are currently on a mission to get things right. For the better part of a decade, the Hokies have shied away from the national spotlight and instead have settled for .500 or ...

From the first-ever ABS challenge to the first ejection involving an ABS challenge, here are all of MLB's firsts involving the new balls-and-strikes arbiter. There’s a first time for everything, but ...

In a year full of bad headlines about robots, here’s a good one: Bloomington’s student robotics team, I.C.E. Robotics, recently captained the winning alliance at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) state ...

A new way for MLB managers be ejected was just unlocked. Minnesota Twins skipper Derek Shelton was tossed from Sunday’s game against the Orioles in the ninth inning after arguing that Baltimore closer ...

José Caballero, pictured hitting a single in the second inning, made the first challenge of the ABS era in the fourth inning, but the strike call was upheld. Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images SAN ...

The Cincinnati Reds' first-ever ABS (Automated Ball-Strike) challenge came on a pitch to catcher Tyler Stephenson in the bottom of the seventh inning of the Reds' Opening Day loss March 26 against the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Baseball’s new reality has arrived. Blink, and you’d miss it. The Giants came out on the winning side of the first Automated Balls and Strikes (ABS) challenged pitch in MLB history.

The ABS challenge system has officially come to Major League Baseball. On Wednesday night, during the season’s opening game between the Giants and the Yankees, New York shortstop José Caballero became ...

After tinkering with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system for a few years, MLB brought the technology to the regular season in 2026. It didn’t take long before the new technology was put ...

SAN FRANCISCO — There it was, for the first time in Major League Baseball history, the outcome of a ball-strike call deciding by a machine. It happened in the fourth inning Wednesday night in the New ...