They turned it into something way bigger than it needed to be. Soccer is turning into a sport for robots. Referees can’t show emotion, players have to give cookie-cutter interviews with lines ...

CONCACAF disciplines referee for asking Lionel Messi for autograph, sparking debate on humanity in soccer and strict governing body rules. In an unusual incident, a referee was disciplined by CONCACAF ...

Referees dressed like regular sports refs oversaw the action. According to one of many rules, the robots are not allowed to deliberately interfere with one another. The matches continued for about ...

Rather than replacing referees entirely, experts predict a future where AI works alongside them. “I don't think we're at the stage anywhere near yet where you're going to have some robot moving ...