Toyota’s basketball-playing humanoid sinks a record-breaking 80-ft shot [Video]

In the long list of tasks we’d like humanoid robots to perform for us, shooting hoops is probably close to the bottom – if it makes the list at all. But the CUE bot from Toyota recently set its second Guinness World Record, for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot.

“This robot just sunk a seemingly impossible basketball shot – and made it look easy,” begins the press release from Guinness World Records. It details the record-breaking exploits of an AI-powered humanoid and its human development team.

For the past few years, project engineers have been honing the skillset and boosting the capabilities of a basketball-playing robot named CUE. An earlier version already secured a world record in 2019 for the most consecutive hoops. Now the sixth-generation humanoid has nailed the longest shot – launching the ball from 24.55 meters (80.5 ft) away and seeing it arc over the court in Nagakute, …