Toyota CUE
CUE is a series of basketball-shooting humanoids built by a Toyota volunteer engineering team, with Guinness records for free throws and the longest robot shot.
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How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
- Status
- Retired
- Category
- entertainment
- First revealed
- 2018
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 210 cm
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- no
Where it stands
Basketball-shooting humanoid built by Toyota engineers 2018 to 2024; CUE6 set a distance record in 2024 before the project wound down.
What stands out
- Guinness record for consecutive free throws
Autonomy, observed
Guinness record for most consecutive free throws by a humanoid (2,020 by CUE3 in 2019); 24.55 m shot by CUE6 in 2024.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: shooting hands
- Sensors: vision to locate hoop
- AI stack: learned shooting model
Price and volume
Not for sale.
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Sources
- 01Toyota CUE, Toyota TimesToyota
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