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CUE6
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Toyota Research Institute · research humanoid

CUE6

Sixth-generation basketball humanoid with a three-axis throwing arm boosted by a spring mechanism and high-current motor drivers, built for ultra-long shots. Toyota does not describe how it moves around the court.

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Why it matters

Set the Guinness World Records title for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot, 24.55 m, in September 2024.

Real-world use

Alvark Tokyo performances

Timeline

First shown
2022-12-24
Released
Not yet
Half-time of Alvark Tokyo vs Shiga Lakes

Maker

Toyota Research InstituteCompany · founded 2016 · Los Altos, California, United States

Toyota subsidiary; launched with $1 billion over five years.

What it has been shown doing

We checked public videos and press for CUE6 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.

Public attention

How much public attention CUE6 gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Stationary
Actuators & motors
Electric joint motors in the right arm (shoulder, elbow, wrist), legs and waist; a Parallel Elastic Actuator spring on the elbow stores energy as the elbow bends and adds to motor torque; motor driver maximum current raised to 100 A.
Hands
Simple ball-releasing hand on a three-axis throwing arm.
Sensors & vision
Joint encoders (the team had to reroute encoder wiring after inverter noise from the 100 A driver caused errors); no cameras or other sensors described.
AI & software
Each joint follows a motion equation set by four parameters; throw parameters tuned with Bayesian optimisation while balancing torque margins across motors; a ball-flight simulation estimating drag and lift set the launch speed needed (16.3 m/s for 24.5 m; achieved 16.4 m/s).
Other details
Leaning the waist back about 10 degrees raised ball speed. Previous CUE record distance was 18 m (2021).

Lineage

Every Toyota Motor Corporation humanoid in order.

  1. Toyota Partner Robot (walking type)Toyota Partner Robot (walking type)2004Retired
  2. Toyota Partner Robot (violin-playing)Toyota Partner Robot (violin-playing)2007Retired
  3. Toyota Partner Robot (running humanoid)Toyota Partner Robot (running humanoid)2009Retired
  4. Human Support Robot (HSR)Human Support Robot (HSR)2012Research
  5. KiroboKirobo2013Retired
  6. T-HR3T-HR32017Research
  7. No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useCUE (first generation)2018Retired
  8. No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useCUE32019Retired
  9. CUE6CUE62022Research
  10. PunyoPunyo2024Research
  11. CUE7CUE72026Research

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Watch CUE6

Video: Guinness World Records on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Built
1 (research robot)
Sold or delivered
not sold
Where it is sold or used
Toyota Frontier Research Center (Dynamic Robotics Group, R-Frontier Division), Japan
Customers and pilots
Alvark Tokyo performances

News

The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Toyota engineers explain CUE6's record throw

    Toyota detailed the elbow spring, high-current drivers and Bayesian tuning behind CUE6's 24.55 m shot.

    Toyota
  2. CUE6 sets Guinness record for longest robot shot

    The robot scored from 24.55 m, the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot.

    Toyota
  3. CUE6 unveiled at Alvark Tokyo half-time

    Toyota showed the sixth CUE at the Alvark Tokyo vs Shiga Lakes game.

    Toyota

Side by side with its peers

Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose

Full comparison
MeasureCUE6CUE6Toyota Motor CorporationNo public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useAlter 3Osaka University (Ishiguro Lab) and University of Tokyo (Ikegami Lab), with mixi and Warner Music JapanSame job: entertainment · Both fixed in place · Both research platforms
First shown2022-12-242019-02-28
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Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

Toyota CUE6 unveiled (CUE project timeline) Toyota How CUE6 set a Guinness World Record

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