Toyota Has Built A Basketball Robot Which Will Absolutely Dunk On You

13 Mar 2018 POSTED BY Aarthi E M

In today’s edition of Robots Who Are Better Than Me, here’s a humanoid robot which can shoot hoops with incredible accuracy called CUE. Lame name, yes, but the amazing thing about CUE is that he was made by 17 Toyota employees in their free time.

The incredible robot, which was “started from scratch,” uses artificial intelligence to sink shots with nothing but net. Incredibly, one of the developers told Japanese news agency, Asahi Shimbun, that the team had no previous experience with AI and learned about it on the internet.

CUE clocks in at a height of 6 feet 2 inches – shorter than the average NBA player, but with a two-pointer percentage score better than any of the pro Japanese players it shot off against in February of this year. You can suss out the monster in action below.

Apparently, old mate was modelled after the main character – Sakuragi Hanamichi – of a popular basketball anime series called Slam Dunk. I dunno about you, but I think the resemblance is unbelievable.

Source: Motherboard