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Toyota wheeled CUE7 onto the floor at Tokyo’s Toyota Arena on April 12, 2026, and the robotics crowd noticed. 219cm tall, 74kg — down from the 120kg CUE6 a year earlier. And it’s hitting three-pointers from 25 meters.

The hardware

CUE7 ditches bipedal legs for an inverted two-wheel chassis, which is why it shed nearly 46kg in a single generation. The upper body carries the full AI stack: vision, embodied perception, motion planning, and arm articulation tuned for shooting, catching, dribbling, and layups. It picks up its own ball, drives the court, and finishes at the rim without an operator. Reporters on the floor described it as the first humanoid demo in a while that actually looked fluid instead of staged.

Why basketball

Toyota isn’t trying to sell a basketball robot. The court is a controlled single-task testbed — fixed geometry, clean reward signal, one ball, one hoop. Every vision, perception, planning and motion-control gain on CUE7 is supposed to transfer to general embodied AI work later. The 25-meter three is the marketing line. The lighter chassis and cleaner motion are the actual progress.

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