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NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026. Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams can challenge two calls per game and get additional appeals in extra …

Major League Baseball will implement a challenge system for balls and strikes in the 2026 season after the league’s competition committee voted Tuesday to usher in the era of robot umpiring. Following years of testing in the minor leagues, as well as during spring training and at this year’s All-Star Game, MLB forged ahead with a system that will give …

MLB’s Joint Competition Committee approved the Automated Ball Strike (ABS) system for the 2026 season on Tuesday. The committee is made up of 11 — six owners, four players and an umpire. Because MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has been strongly in favor of implementing ABS and there are six owners (a majority) on the committee, the belief was that the …

“Westworld’ is closer than I thought.” A  robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features. A video that has gone viral on social media shows the face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression. Its eyes blink in an eerily lifelike way, selling the …

Polish defense firm P.H.U. Lechmar and French company H2X-Defense revealed a new unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) called Hermione at the International Defence Industry Exhibition (MSPO) in Kielce. The showcase, which took place from September 2 to 5, 2025, introduced a hydrogen-powered system designed to support a variety of battlefield tasks. According to reports, the companies presented Hermione as a technology …

I am alone in a dimly lit room, splayed face down on a table. Megan Thee Stallion’s Mamushi is bumping from a speaker, and on a large screen, two white circles roam up and down an outline of my body. Am I at an exclusive German sex club at 2am? Sadly, no. I am in a suburban shopping complex on …

During a presentation at IFA 2025, Deebot parent company Ecovacs (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Ecovacs, but Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip) said repeatedly that its new X11 OmniCyclone robot vacuum‘s AI smarts are all on-device. Or the bulk of them are, anyway. I returned to the booth later …

Plenty of autonomous lawnmowers have been showcased or introduced at this year’s IFA event in Berlin, but only one of them comes equipped with a robotic arm. NexLawn, a sub-brand of MOVA that sits under its Dreame parent company, has announced the Master X Series Concept, which it describes as “the first robotic mower with a fully functional mechanical arm.” …

Scientists have trained a four-legged robot to play badminton against a human opponent, and it scuttles across the court to play rallies of up to 10 shots. By combining whole-body movements with visual perception, the robot, called “ANYmal,” learned to adapt the way it moved to reach the shuttlecock and successfully return it over the net, thanks to artificial intelligence …

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across …