Toyota Research Institute · research humanoid
CUE7
Seventh-generation basketball humanoid on a wheeled-hybrid base that uses cameras and AI to work out each shot's arc and force; reports say it moves from scripted motion to reinforcement learning with model predictive control. Toyota uses it as a testbed for factory and assistive humanoids.
- Price
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- Height
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- Weight
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- Payload
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- Speed
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- Battery
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Why it matters
A research humanoid from Toyota Motor Corporation.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Toyota Research InstituteCompany · founded 2016 · Los Altos, California, United StatesToyota subsidiary; launched with $1 billion over five years.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for CUE7 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention CUE7 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 4 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Actuators & motors
- Not specified; AI-computed shot commands drive the arm motors on a wheeled-hybrid base.
- Hands
- Specialised end effectors that guide the ball and release it with consistent spin.
- Sensors & vision
- Cameras measure distance and angle to the hoop.
- Compute
- Not specified.
- Battery & power
- Not published.
- Materials & build
- Not published.
- AI & software
- AI calculates each shot's arc and force. Reports of a switch to reinforcement learning with model predictive control were not found in the sources read.
- Other details
- Toyota uses the CUE series (since 2017) as a testbed for smart manufacturing and assistive humanoids.
Lineage
Every Toyota Motor Corporation humanoid in order.
Toyota Partner Robot (walking type)2004Retired
Toyota Partner Robot (violin-playing)2007Retired
Toyota Partner Robot (running humanoid)2009Retired
Human Support Robot (HSR)2012Research
Kirobo2013Retired
T-HR32017Research- No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useCUE (first generation)2018Retired
- No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useCUE32019Retired
CUE62022Research
Punyo2024Research- CUE72026Research
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Research robot, not for sale.
- Where it is sold or used
- Japan (Toyota)
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Toyota's CUE7 draws crowds with shooting demos at RTJ2026
Toyota ran basketball-shooting demonstrations with its latest AI robot CUE7 in the organiser's industrial-robot experience zone at Robot Technology Japan 2026.
MONOist (ITmedia) - CUE7 sinks a free throw at Alvark Tokyo halftime
Toyota's seventh basketball robot debuted at halftime of an Alvark Tokyo game on a new wheeled-hybrid base.
Mike Kalil - CUE6 sets robot long-shot record
Guinness recognised CUE6 for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid, about 24.5 m.
Mike Kalil - CUE3 makes 2,020 free throws in a row
An earlier CUE set a Guinness record for consecutive free throws by a humanoid.
Mike Kalil
Sources
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