Battling robot competitions have evolved quite a bit since the days of the nostalgic “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots” action toy from the 1960s. This weekend the California VEX Robotics State Championships, ...

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 ...

As the movie “Fight Club” taught many of us in the ‘90s, the number one rule of a fight club is to never talk about it. The Common Market on Green Street in Durham never got that message.

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 ...