CUE7
Toyota CUE7 is the seventh-generation basketball-shooting robot from Toyota, unveiled April 2026. Standing 2.19 m tall and weighing 74 kg (38% lighter than CUE6), it uses a wheeled inverted two-wheel base. It employs a hybrid reinforcement learning and model predictive control (RL+MPC) system to learn from misses and adapt shots in real time. Can shoot from 25 meters. Toyota uses CUE as a testbed for embodied AI and motion planning research transferable to manufacturing.
Primary use case: Robotics research testbed for vision-based target acquisition, real-time trajectory planning, and precise force control; demonstrated via basketball shooting
Height
219 cm
Weight
74 kg
Specifications
Physical
Height
219 cm
Weight
74 kg
Locomotion
Wheeled
Commercial
Availability
Research Only
Primary Use Case
Robotics research testbed for vision-based target acquisition, real-time trajectory planning, and precise force control; demonstrated via basketball shooting
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