And this? Well, this probably counts. Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League is scheduled to get underway on Saturday as a sign of a return to normalcy after the initial wave of the COVID-19 ...

Faceless, camera-eyed, paraplegic mannequins are coming soon to Japanese department stores, as Flower Robotics shows off its prototype models that not only turn to pose for individual shoppers, but ...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - DECEMBER 31: First team manager Tseng,Hao-Chu of Rakuten Monkeys pose at Rakuten Monkeys team announcement on December 31, 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images) ...

But a few professional sports leagues around the world are still playing on. And deprived of live, human audiences, they’ve begun filling their stands with a new breed of spectator, one with total ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. One team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League is getting creative with its fan base during the ...

Instead of playing to empty seats while fans are locked out because of the coronavirus, the Taiwan-based Rakuten Monkeys have installed robotic mannequins decked out in team colors. Good morning. I'm ...

This diagram shows a mannequin with adjustable hip, waist and chest size, with a camera system to record how the garment looks from different angles. (Amazon Illustration via USPTO) Amazon has won yet ...

The Rakuten Monkeys won't have to worry about booing once the 2020 Chinese Professional Baseball League season begins on Saturday. The club announced on Tuesday that they will place robot mannequins ...