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.
Desk report · Published · The Humanoid Race
Guinness World Records lists Toyota's CUE3 for 2,020 consecutive free throws, achieved in Fuchu, Japan on 17 May 2019, in its “assisted” category. It separately lists CUE6 for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot, 24.55 metres, achieved in Nagakute, Japan on 26 September 2024.
Both marks are narrow. They measure shooting tasks, not defence or decision-making in play. CUE3 and CUE6 are different generations; the older free-throw record is not assigned to CUE6. Neither mark establishes which robot would win a basketball game.
For readers following sport robotics, the lesson is the same as on the running desk: certified records are useful, but the task definition is part of the result.