Major League Baseball plans to use its robot umpire technology for ball-strike challenges in Tuesday's All-Star Game at Atlanta, another step toward possible regular-season use next season.MLB said Wednesday it intends to make the All-Star announcement Thursday.

MLB is essentially porting over the ABS challenge system used during spring training for the upcoming All-Star Game in Atlanta. Human umpires will call balls and strikes as they normally would, but teams will be given two opportunities to challenge the call,

The future is here. Major League Baseball plans to break out the robot umpires at the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday night in Atlanta, according to ESPN. MLB will use the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system that has been in place for multiple seasons in the minor leagues at Triple-A.