Sports Technology•Aug 26, 2026College Baseball Is Adding Pitch Challenges and Bat SensorsNew NCAA rules will let college baseball teams challenge ball and strike calls with tracking technology and collect swing data from sensors attached to bats. The options begin in the 2027 season, but schools need compatible systems, and human umpires will still make the original calls.
Sports Technology•Aug 23, 2026A Humanoid Robot Ran 100 Metres in 9.39 SecondsTiangong Ultra finished a 100-metre robot race in 9.39 seconds, faster than the human world record and less than half its own 2025 time. The jump in speed is real, but the machine stopped by hitting padding and the contest did not test safe movement around people.
Sports Technology•Aug 22, 2026AI Predicted Athlete Performance From Movement, Heart Data and SurveysA model combining pose video, heart measurements and psychological questionnaires classified athletic performance with 91.2% cross-validated accuracy in data from 150 athletes. The result suggests that several data types can complement one another, but it did not test future competitions, injury reduction or whether coaches make better decisions with the predictions.
Sports Technology•Jul 19, 2026The Smartest World Cup Final Ever, and the Technology That Still Failed Outside the StadiumArgentina and Spain contested a World Cup final watched by a sensor-filled ball, 16 tracking cameras, 3D player twins and AI-assisted systems. Yet outside the New York New Jersey Stadium, reported ticket-scanning trouble and security bottlenecks left supporters waiting for hours.
Sports Technology•Jul 18, 2026AI Was Helping Call Pitches From the Dugout. MLB Just Shut the DoorMajor League Baseball has removed custom programs from league-issued dugout iPads after teams used them for AI-assisted pitch calls, substitutions and other live decisions. The move raises a bigger question: when does analysis become an unfair digital coach?
Sports Technology•Jul 17, 2026The World Cup Ball Has a ‘Heartbeat’, and It Can Overrule Human EyesThe 2026 World Cup’s Trionda ball sends movement data 500 times per second, helping VAR identify tiny touches and time offside decisions. After its sensor evidence contradicted claims that a camera cable altered the ball before an England goal, the tournament exposed a deeper question: when technology and human perception disagree, which one should football trust?
