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Basketball-tossing robot outshoots professional players at court demonstration in Tokyo
Published on Feb 27, 2018
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Video footage taken at a basketball court in Fuchu, western Tokyo, shows CUE, an AI-equipped robot, besting two players belonging to professional basketball team Alvark Tokyo in a shooting contest from the line. CUE, standing 190 centimeters tall and built from aluminum and resin components, placed all its 10 shoots into the net, while Zack Baranski and Seiya Ando faltered at their sixth throw. The video footage was taken by Masato Sato of The Asahi Shimbun.
https://youtu.be/rlZReGFm53U
Published on Mar 14, 2018
Article "Watch a sparkly basketball robot built by Toyota engineers sink flawless free throws"
Nothing but (neural) nets
by James Vincent
March 15, 2018
https://youtu.be/d4KbzL7rLMs
Toyota created a basketball-playing robot never misses a free throw
Published on Mar 16, 2018
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A Toyota-sponsored Japanese basketball team Alvark Tokyo has just unveiled 'CUE,' a basketball-playing robot that has perfect accuracy when it comes to free throws. When they pitted the robot against professional players, CUE won, but apart from its great shooting skills there is not much else it can do.
https://youtu.be/V_nhy4iIaBA
Toyota Basketball Robot Collaboration || CUE3 2019
Published on Apr 1, 2019
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Three-point-shooting basketball robot shows off skills
Alvark Tokyo unveils basketball robot "CUE3" on April 10
B. LEAGUE's professional basketball team “Al-Bulk Tokyo” will be playing with the AI basketball robot “CUE3 (Q3)” on April 10 (Wednesday) at the Sun Rockers held at the home arena “Arena Tachikawa Tachikawa” I announced that I will show off in the Shibuya match.
Alvark Tokyo is based on the Toyota Motor Men's Basketball Club, and on the same day, as “Toyota Robot Day”, it will demonstrate its performance in collaboration with the humanoid “T-HR3” developed by Toyota Motor and the life support robot “HSR”. In addition to the CUE 3 half-time show, we will also conduct performances with cheerleaders and test rides, etc., and will convey the fusion of robots and sports throughout the arena and the appeal of new baskets.
On April 1st, Toyota Fuchu Sports Center made a preliminary press release. In addition to the robot demonstrations, performances of three-point shoot confrontation and physical ability comparison between Sogo Ando and Yudai Baba were presented.
With three point shooter "CUE3"
The free throw robot "CUE3" is 204 cm tall and weighs 76 kg. The number of motors is 21. The ankle and knee are speeding up with a double motor configuration. The power supply is an external power supply. Using the chest infrared sensor and camera, recognize the white frame of the basketball goal, determine the position and hit the shoot.
The model number is 93 and the position is SG (shooting guard). "It is said that it is a three-point shooter that takes over 100% of the targeted shoots and takes over the feelings of CUE2." The name "CUE" has a meaning of "trigger".
We developed the Toyota Motor Corporation Future Creation Center AI Athlete Robot Development Group. The first "CUE" was originally planned and developed by "Toyota Engineering Society (known as TES: Established in 1947, with 30,000 members)", an internal volunteer organization of Toyota Motor Corporation. At the time, there were 17 development members. Inspired by the hero's lines in the cartoon "Slam Dunk", it was planned to choose a basketball shoot as a material to optimize the trajectory of the arm in reinforcement learning. In the development at that time, it was said that 200,000 shoots were made by simulation and 300 shoots with a real machine.
The first "CUE" was scheduled to be open to the public at the 2017 TES event "Wakuwaku World". However, at the half-time show of the game of Al-Bulk Tokyo in March 2018, the performance as a player belonging to Al-Bulk became a topic and became a topic, and it is continuously developed with a schedule until 2020. It is said that development is in progress with plans to disclose the progress about once every half year. In November 2018, the base part of the first generation was removed, and the "CUE 2" with its output raised was released and decided to shoot three points.
Meanwhile, development team leader Toyota Motor Tomohiro Nomi said that it was a shock that the robot failed to shoot. Actually, in practice, it seemed to have been successful in almost 100 rounds, and it was awry to say, "If it is to be removed in production,".
The robot can hit the chute itself on a nearly accurate trajectory each time. The reason why there is a possibility of failure is that the ball's trajectory changes depending on how the ball is placed. It seems that the trajectory changes depending on whether or not the ball seam is caught at the time of release. From now on, rather than being able to cope with any way of holding, it is said that the hand part will be improved so that the way of holding the ball is almost the same.
In the case of a human player, the question "does pay careful attention to how to hold the ball as well?" As it was a thing, it was said that I did not mind until then during the game.
The "CUE3" is said to have optimized the orbit by performing 1.5 million simulations and 200 actual throws. This time, I tried to shoot a variety of patterns is that the learning efficiency has increased.
The goal for 2020 is to enter the Three Points Contest. To do so, you have to shoot the ball from five places 25 times a minute. To that end, it aims to be able to pick up the ball by itself and shoot at high speed and next to next. There are many parts of the current robots that are not enough, but it is said that information will be regularly sent out in the future. Mr. Nomi first said, "I would like to decide on April 10, 2019".
https://youtu.be/usgb3BdHRPg
Can this basketball-playing robot beat the professionals?
Apr 2, 2019
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Japanese engineers have developed a basketball robot built to take precision three-point shots. It only hit five out of eight on a test trial.
It still beat its human competitors though, two basketball players who are likely to compete for the Japanese team in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The robot’s developers say CUE3 still has a long way to go.
Report by Ferdia Carr
https://youtu.be/L47nxA3hnK4
Will this Basketball Robot ever miss? - Guinness World Records
Jun 24, 2019
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Scientists in Japan have worked with Alvark Tokyo and Toyota to create CUE3, a basketball robot with an impeccable record from the free throw line? Can he even miss?
https://youtu.be/4jq-FgW67mU
Introducing Cue4: new basketball robot by Toyota Motor Corp.
Nov 25, 2019
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On Nov. 16, 2019, B. League basketball team Alvark Tokyo introduced a “new member” — Cue4, Toyota Motors Corp. latest model of basketball-shooting robot.
https://youtu.be/cG8SvzSDB08
Robot Plays Basketball At Olympics
Jul 30, 2021
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Robot plays basketball at Olympics
The robot is called CUE and is manufactured by Toyota. No word yet on its eligibility for the Games.
Japan Built A Basketball Robot For The Olympics, And It's Awesome
Ever dreamed of watching a basketball game with robotic players? Toyota’s ‘CUE’ robot is designed to shoot baskets with nearly 100 percent accuracy.
During the 2020 Olympics happening now in Tokyo, Toyota used the event to show off its robot that uses artificial intelligence to play basketball. That may sound like a headline from the future, but it's far from the craziest thing AI has been used for. About a month ago, robotic company Boston Dynamics shared a video of its popular Spot robots dancing in unison to a BTS song. AI was also used earlier this year to write its own version of Star Wars Episode X. Artificial intelligence is a virtually limitless tool when put in the right hands, often resulting in unbelievable creations.
The Olympics officially began on July 23, 2021, after missing the original date of July 24, 2020. The games were delayed by a year due to COVID-19, and while the virus continues to rage on throughout the world, things have begun returning to some levels of normalcy — including the Olympics. Although the general public is banned from the stadiums and arenas for this year's competition, athletes are competing and fighting for medals as they do every four years. While the Olympics are traditionally free of artificial intelligence, that changed this year.
During halftime for the United States Vs. France men's basketball game, Japan-based Toyota used the break to show off its 'CUE' robot. Created in 2018, CUE was designed with the sole purpose of shooting basketballs with accuracy and precision that rivals the best human players. While the USA and France teams were getting ready for the second half of their game, CUE was placed at the end of the three-point line, shot three balls, and made every single one. As demonstrated in the video below, it's really impressive stuff.
CUE has a human-like shape with a torso, arms, legs, and head. The robot is 6-feet and 10-inches tall and weighs 165 pounds, making it a prime basketball player on paper. However, it won't be replacing Kevin Durant or anyone else any time soon. While CUE can make incredible shots with a ball, it cannot dribble, dunk, jump, or even move that fast. It's great for standing still and shooting free throws, but it's not very useful for any other aspect of the game.
CUE utilizes sensors in its torso to calculate the exact distance from the hoop to make those shots. It uses this information to determine the best angle and power, thus resulting in a shooting accuracy of almost 100 percent. It's undeniably impressive, but even when it comes to just shooting baskets, CUE is pretty slow — taking 10-15 seconds in between each shot to pick up the next ball, calculate everything, and throw it.