Standing almost two meters tall and weighing in at 110 kilograms, the CUE has biometrics very similar to that of the average basketball player. But CUE isn’t a sports star in the conventional sense: it’s a robot with artificial intelligence.
At the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2021, he wowed spectators with a half-court kick.
“In that moment, I felt like I was watching a fantasy movie (rather than) something I was a part of,” says Tomohiro Nomi, leader of the development team behind CUE and other humanoid robot projects at Toyota.
The CUE, which uses a chest sensor to calculate the angle and power needed for each throw, started as an amateur robotics project in 2017 and achieved the “impossible” by appearing at a halftime show at the Olympics, says Nomi.
However, after hitting over 2,000 consecutive throws in a world record attempt, shooting bows has become too easy for this sport droid.
To spice things up, the team is teaching the robot to dribble — and hopes future iterations will have “the same range of motion and flexibility as humans,” says Nomi.
The Toyota team behind CUE conceived the idea during an AI-themed event at a volunteer organization called the Toyota Engineering Society. Inspired by a quote from a 90’s basketball manga series titled “Slam Dunk” – “Will 20,000 practice shots be enough?” – the team set out to create a robotic player capable of 100% accuracy.
Source: CNN Brasil
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