No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

As cameras rolled, Irving playfully squared up to the 4’2” G1 robot, towering over it by nearly two feet. A gentle shove sent ...

Kyrie Irving nearly damaged a robot when he shut down its performance with a gentle shove that caused it to topple over onto ...

Robot athletes are going for the gold in Beijing, China, as the first ever World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off on Thursday. Remotely operated by their human teams, the robots will be tested for ...

This year marked the first-ever international sporting event to feature humanoid robots as athletes. These robots, with some help from the humans behind their creation, competed against each other in ...

In a video shared by the Dallas Mavericks social media page, a Unitree G1 android shows off its slick karate moves in front of the team, before Irving approaches and squares it up. The diminutive 4’2″ ...

We've seen robot dogs run up hills with luggage, and help fight fires. Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

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 ...

MOOSIC, Pa. — It's official: Major League Baseball is returning for the new season with a new addition—robot umpires. But for RailRiders fans, robot umps aren't anything new. "We've had it for three ...

NEW YORK Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be ...