Despite a recent COVID-19 outbreak in the NFL that resulted in cancelled games, some teams are planning to welcome back fans over the next few weeks. The Atlanta Falcons are one of those, and to reduce the risks, Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium (MBS) will be among the first sports venues to sanitize key areas using drones (via CNN). MBS will use Lucid Drone Technologies' D1 disinfecting drones to disinfect the seating bowl, handrails, and glass partitions at the stadium. "This stadium is incredibly large and as we begin to slowly welcome fans back, these drones allow us to maximize the time between games and private events to thoroughly sanitize," said building operations manager Jackie Poulakos. The use of drones reduces seating bowl cleaning times by 95 percent and is 14 times more efficient than regular backpack foggers, according to MBS.

Pro Football Focus Majority owner and former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Cris Collinsworth discuss how his company is using artificial intelligence to help football teams determine players' salaries. The National Football League is turning to artificial intelligence to determine whether its teams are paying some of their star players too much money. Pro Football Focus (PFF) is an analytics company that is majority-owned by former Cincinnati Bengals player and NFL broadcaster Chris Collinsworth. The new system, in conjunction with Amazon Web Services (AWS), will provide never-before-seen metrics of all 32 NFL teams. "We break down every player on every play on every game," Collingsworth said during an exclusive interview on FOX Business' "Bulls & Bears" Monday.

While the NFL is not normally known for embracing change, certain teams around the league have been quick to adapt to new technologies that will give them an edge or help improve existing training methods. In 2016, the Pittsburgh Steelers were one of the first to trial tackling robots at practice, a device ultimately purchased by a number of NFL teams and colleges. Now it would appear that the use of robotics in football has taken a significant leap forward with the invention of a device that is most simply described as a robotic quarterback. Created by a group of alumni from Iowa University and their company Monarc Sports Robotics, "The Seeker" is capable of delivering a football to any predefined point on the field using tracking software or being used as a more accurate version of a jugs machine. Here's the story behind Seeker, the world's first robotic quarterback developed by Monarc Inc and currently being trialled by a host of NFL and college football teams.

The NFL is joining Major League Baseball as an AWS customer, announcing a deal today to provide real-time statistics running on AWS. The tool is part of the NFL's Next Gen Stats program, which will take advantage of AWS machine learning and data analytics tools to enhance its current offering. MLB has had a similar deal in place with its StatCast tool. The NFL uses RFID tags in player equipment and the ball to capture real-time location, speed, and acceleration data. Much like the MLB product, this data can be used to heighten the NFL broadcast experience by showing viewers a unique data-driven view of the play on the field.

When I ask you to understand that sentence, I'm requiring you to take on a pretty significant undertaking, although you do it hundreds of times each day without really thinking about it. "Love" is a little more difficult, but not much. Given the grammatical structure and syntax, we can easily reduce the possible meanings of "love" (of which there are 28, according to Dictionary.com) down to a subset that have slightly different meanings, but all basically translate as, "have a strong liking for." While there is a margin of error here, it's minimal. The word "Jaguars" is a different story.