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About CUE7

CUE7 is the seventh generation of Toyota's AI basketball robot and made its public game debut with Alvark Tokyo in April 2026. The wheeled humanoid platform extends the programme from repeatable shooting toward dynamic full-body movement, ball handling and on-court demonstrations.

Toyota's CUE project uses basketball as a test domain for perception, trajectory estimation, balance and coordinated motion control. CUE7 remains a research and demonstration robot, not a general-purpose service humanoid. The event photograph shows the exact machine performing on court and meets the 16:9 contextual-image requirement.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Capability areas: Human-robot interaction
Workflows: Sports robotics research, reinforcement learning for dynamic motion and basketball shooting/dribbling demonstration.
Operating environments: Research lab
Target markets: Robotics researchers and Toyota internal R&D teams studying physical AI and dynamic motion control.
Deployment model: Internal research project with public demonstration visibility.
Basketball shooting
Demonstrated - 2026-04-12 - Coverage of the live basketball demonstration described CUE7 standing from a seated posture, dribbling and making a free throw without human input.
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Observed use

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

Jetson AGX Orin Industrial
Research Experiment - Embedded - Physical - NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial is used in Toyota CUE7’s onboard perception and control research configuration, supplied through Ryosan Ryoyo.
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Connect Tech AGX202
Research Experiment - Embedded - Physical - Connect Tech AGX202 is used in Toyota CUE7’s onboard perception and control research configuration, supplied through Ryosan Ryoyo.
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Connect Tech JCB002
Research Experiment - Embedded - Physical - Connect Tech JCB002 is used in Toyota CUE7’s onboard perception and control research configuration, supplied through Ryosan Ryoyo.
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Supply

Supply / Components

CUE7
Edge AI Compute Modules - Compute & Control - Ryoyo Ryosan - Ryosan Ryoyo supplied NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial and Connect Tech AGX202/JCB002 for Toyota CUE7 research - source: rr-hds.co.jp
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Timeline

Toyota CUE7 adopts edge-AI compute supplied by Ryosan Ryoyo
2026-10-06 - Capability - The configuration uses NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Industrial, Connect Tech AGX202 and Connect Tech JCB002. Toyota selected the hardware for its compact, lightweight form and high-precision real-time recognition of the ball and surroundings. The research explores autonomous decisions and control for dribbling in response to irregular ball movement and changes in the environment.
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Toyota debuts CUE7 basketball humanoid with lighter two-wheel design and hybrid AI control
2026-04-12 - Capability - Toyota Frontier Research Center presented CUE7 as a lighter robot, reducing body weight from 120 kg to 74 kg and adopting an inverted two-wheel structure. The CUE7 control system combines reinforcement learning with model predictive control for more dynamic movement. Coverage of the live basketball demonstration described CUE7 standing from a seated posture, dribbling and making a free throw without human input.
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Context

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

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