Robotics Toyota's 7-foot-2 Basketball Robot Sank a Free Throw in Front of 8,400 Fans Without a Single Scripted Motion. The Controller Is the News.
At halftime of the April 12 Alvark Tokyo game, Toyota's CUE7 — 7'2", 163 lb, no teleoperation, no motion-capture — stood up, dribbled, and made a free throw. The control stack, quietly disclosed on April 23, is reinforcement learning merged with MPC. That's what every humanoid factory robot needs.