TOKYO, Japan — Tokyo-based Toyota Engineering Society, unveiled a 6ft 3in (1.9m) humanoid robot basketball player that uses AI to shoot at 100 percent accuracy from short distance.
Dressed in its own jersey and shorts, the robot named Cue, has learned to shoot the basketball using artificial intelligence having thrown some 200,000 practice shots.
When handed a ball Cue squats and then throws the ball using the same movements as a real player. In a shootout, the robot scored more free-throws than players at Arvalq Tokyo, a team in Japan’s top professional league.
Cue is 6 foot 3 inches (190cm) tall, shorter than the average NBA player at 6 foot 7 inches (200cm).