Basketball · Published
The specialist shooter: what Toyota's CUE records do and do not show
Two Guinness-certified marks, five years apart, for a robot built to do one thing.
Basketball · Sport desk
Shooting robots, most notably Toyota's CUE series, with records certified by Guinness World Records.
This is a selected evidence file, not a complete current world ranking. A source link is not independent verification.
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Basketball results
These are certified records for one task, shooting. They are not a measure of how a robot would play a game. Note that “assisted” is a category label in the Guinness title.
Farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot
Shot distance · metres
Single certified record entry.
| Competitor | Result | Evidence date | Control mode | Classification | Notes and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota CUE6 | 24.55 m | 2024-09-26 | Not specified / not applicable; see notes | Record body certified | Achieved in Nagakute, Japan, according to the Guinness World Records entry. Guinness World Records |
Most consecutive free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted)
Consecutive successful free throws · throws
Single certified record entry in the Guinness “assisted” category.
| Competitor | Result | Evidence date | Control mode | Classification | Notes and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toyota CUE3 (with Alvark Tokyo) | 2,020 | 2019-05-17 | Not specified / not applicable; see notes | Record body certified | Achieved in Fuchu, Japan, per the Guinness World Records entry. The record is older than the other charts on this desk. Guinness World Records |
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