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.
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