What is Humanoid Robot: Humanoid robots, which have made a strong presence in various fields like medicine, education, corporate etc, are now performing duties ranging from cleaning the house to cooking. Among them, there is one such area, that is sports, where till now they could not enter. But now successful experiments are being done in this direction also. Till now you might have seen players of two teams struggling with the ball on the basketball ground, but now do not be surprised if you see humanoid robots playing basketball. Let us know about this in detail.
Toyota Motor Corporation creates player humanoid robot
A player humanoid robot CUE6 has been manufactured by Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan. Who has created history by making a tremendous basketball shot from a distance of more than 80 feet during his very first trial and has also won the Guinness World Record title.
Humanoid robot CUE6 has these features
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Talking about the features of Humanoid Robot CUE6 (Toyota Humanoid Robot CUE6), Toyota’s Frontier Research team was working for a long time in the creation of this robot. Under whose leadership the CUE project was started seven years ago in 2017 with some volunteers of the company and Toyota’s Frontier Research team.
At the same time, today the humanoid CUE6 robot, which is exactly like a human being, can not only throw the basketball into the hoop. In fact, if he commits any mistake during this game, he also tries to correct his mistakes. With new learning, he positions himself better for the next shot. By the research team that created this robot, it has been trained to recognize patterns and take shots correctly.
This type of attempt has been made before also
Such attempts have already been made to introduce robots in the playground. In this direction, in 2022, America’s Joshua Walker humanoid robot had achieved the world record Guinness Book. Who made the longest basketball shot ever made from a distance of 113 feet 6 inches. Many efforts were made for this invention for a long time. In this direction, Toyota hoped that the second humanoid robot CUE6 would give better performance than its first Joshua robot. But in the second attempt the ball hit the rim and came back to him.
Along with further improving the sports performance of Toyota’s humanoid robot, this robot will achieve many big achievements by giving excellent performance in the future. Let us tell you that on September 26, 2024, under the leadership of Toyota’s Frontier Research Team in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan, CUE6 has set a record by hitting a basketball shot to a distance of 80 feet 6 inches.
Many special experiments have been done on humanoid robots for sporty performance.
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For sporty performance, Toyota team has used special sensors on the hands of the CUE6 robot. To sense the movement of the ball, cameras have been installed in its feet. With the help of which the humanoid robot CUE6 is able to make accurate basketball shots accurately and at longer distances. Apart from this, he also has the skills to dribble the ball, pick up and shoot the ball independently, walk on wheels, and collect the ball from different shooting positions.
What Tomohiro Nomi, CUE Project Leader at Toyota, says
Regarding the invention of the humanoid robot CUE6, Tomohiro Nomi, CUE project leader at Toyota, says that by using artificial intelligence based on robot structure, this humanoid robot learned about the most effective throwing style and was able to think about it. As a result I think it gave rise to the current throwing form. With the humanoid robot CUE6 promoting better performance levels than before, it was decided to shoot from a great distance with the aim of setting a new record, in which we achieved success.
Toyota’s humanoid robot CUE6 actually making a spectacular basketball shot from more than 80 feet is not only an amazing feat, it shows the advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence. Moreover, this achievement is an important milestone in the field of robotics, which also shows that apart from training robots for various tasks, it now also includes sports.
When did the first human robot come into existence?
The existence of a human being, a machine called robot, was proved for the first time on earth by Friedrich Kaufmann of Germany in 1810. This was the first human-like robot, Dresden. Who was a soldier holding a trumpet. This robot remained a subject of curiosity in the world till April 30, 1950. The first digitally operated and programmable robot was invented by George Devol in 1954 and was eventually called Unimate. This later laid the foundation for the modern robotics industry.