NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss Boston Celtics Jayson Tatum's return to the court from injury and the start of the World Baseball Classic tournament.

The Athletics had the highest success rate using the robot-umpire system to overturn ball/strike calls during the first 10 ...

MLB's ABS challenge system is up and running this spring — and it's about to change baseball profoundly. Here's everything you need to know.

The market for AI-powered robots and autonomous machines has the potential to balloon into a trillion-dollar opportunity by 2035, orders of magnitude bigger than it is now, according to a team of ...

If robots ever rise up and take over the world, we might look at laundry-folding assistants as the Trojan Horse that started it all. On X, Weave Robotics founder Evan Wineland said Weave is focused on ...

Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often used dancing and martial arts to showcase their humanoid robots. Now to ring in the Chinese New ...

The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium. The “K9-X” unit ...

A full-size humanoid robot just ran faster than most people will ever sprint. Chinese robotics firm MirrorMe Technology has unveiled Bolt, a humanoid robot that reached a top speed of 22 miles per ...

Humanoid robots are no longer hiding in research labs somewhere. These days, they are stepping into public spaces, and they are starting to look alarmingly human. A Shanghai startup has now taken that ...

The 21 Finalists include Blake Griffin, Doc Rivers, Candace Parker and the 1996 U.S. Olympic Women's team. Official release Doc Rivers coached Blake Griffin for more than 4 years while both were with ...

JUST 71 DAYS AWAY, AND THE WPIAL HAS INTRODUCED ITS NEW HALL OF FAME CLASS. THAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING AT THE HEINZ HISTORY CENTER. OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST AND MOUNT LEBANON NATIVE AND GRAD KURT ANGLE ...

The rise of autonomous food delivery in Chicago has made colorful, flag-bearing robotic carts a familiar sight as they steadily roll along busy sidewalks and crosswalks on a last-mile mission to ...