NPR's Juana Summers talks with Ben Kesling of The Wall Street Journal about a new innovation in bowling pin racking that is angering some pro bowlers.

The pins don’t scatter like normal; two remain standing. Kevin Mills, a longtime league player, was skeptical of the increasingly popular string pinsetters. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) ...

Cosey Durant, the most highly regarded pin boy at the Hi-Skor Bowling Alleys on 13th Street NW, moved, wrote the Star, like “a gigantic dancing spider, the arms whisk over the end of the alley ...

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 ...

The quilles (pins) are often set in a diamond formation, unlike the traditional triangle setup in American ten-pin bowling. In these European variants of the game, string pinsetters are commonly used.

11 thoughts on “ Retrotechtacular: Robots And Bowling Pins ” Bob Coggeshall (@BobCoggeshall) says: October 12, 2018 at 7:13 am I like how the ovipositor sets 3 pins at a time. Report ...