BBN, meet ‘CUE,’ the robot basketball player invented by Toyota engineers that was built to never miss.
The Toyota-sponsored Japanese basketball team Alvark Tokyo recently unveiled CUE at a practice, where it went head-to-head in shooting competitions with several different professional players.
“They all entered [the net], I can’t believe it,” one competitor said, per Tokyo-based newspaper Asahi Shumbun
“I thought he would miss one, but…I feel frustrated,” said the other player.
CUE never missed, nor does it plan to.
According to ‘Interesting Engineering,’ the sharpshooting robot can hit up to 200,000 shots in a row from 3.