Robots replicate reality: High-tech pitching machine mimics every pitcher

The Trajekt Arc pitching machine is demonstrated during the Major League Baseball winter meetings in Nashville, Tennessee. — AP

TAMPA, Florida: Nestor Cortes got behind the plate in a batting cage and watched an 8-foot-high, 1,200-pound robot spit out fastballs, cutters and sweepers just like the ones spinning off the fingertips of his left hand.

“It was like seeing myself pitch. That was crazy,” the New York Yankees All-Star left-hander said.