It was the first time duckpins were automatically set in a bowling alley. Inventor Kenneth Sherman said his robot pin boy was more accurate, faster and easier on the pins than a human.

KESLING: Well, everybody knows what the traditional bowling pin setter is, right? Like, the pins there stand on their own. You knock them down. The big arm sweeps them. They set them down.

There’s a bowling revolution in play, and not all bowlers are willing participants. In fact, a few are on strike, and it’s all because bowling alleys across America are getting rid of ...

MILWAUKEE—A tougher breed of bowling pin is popping up at alleys in the U.S. and abroad. Serious bowlers have cause to fear them. New technology makes these bowling pins harder to knock down ...