Mar. 29, 2019
“A basketball-playing robot developed by Toyota has apparently been registered as a player by the Alvark Tokyo (“Alavark”) professional basketball team in Japan.” Upon hearing this rumor, I immediately took a look at the Alvark website. Sure enough, there it was. Clearly different in appearance to the other players, I immediately spotted it. Its name was CUE2, and its profile stated it was from Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture.
In the history of the Japanese professional basketball league, this is the first time ever that a robot has been registered as a player. But what, exactly, is CUE? The robot’s name is CUE2, which suggests there was a CUE1… and, upon further investigation, I found what appeared to be the first-generation CUE on YouTube. Number of views… 320,000!? That’s more views than Toyota’s new model introduction videos get!
In any case, it seems true that Toyota is developing a basketball playing robot―but why now? The automotive industry is said to be facing a once-in-a-century period of major upheaval―surely Toyota doesn’t have time to be developing a basketball playing robot?! No doubt many people think the same. What significance has Toyota identified in developing a basketball playing robot? I intend to charge headlong into finding the answer.
发布者：Dr.Durant，转转请注明出处：https://robotalks.cn/search-results-humanoid-toyota-motor-corporation-official-global-website-8/
