Facts

• Company: Toyota Motor Corporation
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: development
• Capability focus: Interaction

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

CUE7 is Toyota latest AI basketball robot in the CUE series. It was unveiled in 2026 after earlier CUE robots set Guinness World Records, continuing Toyota research into precision motion, perception and robotic control.

Overview

CUE7 is Toyota latest AI basketball robot in the CUE series. It was unveiled in 2026 after earlier CUE robots set Guinness World Records, continuing Toyota research into precision motion, perception and robotic control.

Market context

CUE7 is Toyota seventh-generation basketball-playing humanoid research robot demonstrating learned shooting, dribbling and perception through reinforcement learning.

• Target environment: Research labs, demonstration events and sports robotics testing environments.
• Workflow context: Sports robotics research, reinforcement learning for dynamic motion and basketball shooting/dribbling demonstration.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers and Toyota internal R&D teams studying physical AI and dynamic motion control.
• Deployment model: Internal research project with public demonstration visibility.
• Commercial maturity: Research-stage humanoid testbed from Toyota not positioned as a commercial product.
• Adoption constraints: Designed for basketball-specific research rather than general-purpose tasks.
• Market position: A high-visibility physical AI testbed from Toyota showing progression from programmed control toward reinforcement learning.
• Adjacent products: Research humanoids, sports robotics platforms

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Sports robotics research, reinforcement learning for dynamic motion and basketball shooting/dribbling demonstration.

Capability

interaction

Deployment environment

Research labs, demonstration events and sports robotics testing environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Sports robotics research, reinforcement learning for dynamic motion and basketball shooting/dribbling demonstration.
• Capability: interaction
• Deployment environment: Research labs, demonstration events and sports robotics testing environments.

Specifications

• Lower Body: inverted two-wheel structure
• Mobility Change: reduced from four wheels to two wheels
• Sensors Summary: torso lidar sensors; head stereo camera
• Control Stack: reinforcement learning, model predictive control, hybrid control system
• Battery: high-performance batteries adapted from Toyota racing technology
• Height Cm: 219 cm cm
• Weight Kg: 74 kg kg
• Previous Generation Weight Kg: about 120 kg kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Humanoid research platform
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Market Signal: High-visibility demo

Timeline / Research

• 2026-04-12 - Capability - Toyota debuts CUE7 basketball humanoid with lighter two-wheel design and hybrid AI control - Toyota Frontier Research Center presented CUE7 as a lighter robot, reducing body weight from 120 kg…