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by Our Founder/CEO&CTO Hiroyuki Chishiro
- He has worked as a visiting scholar at Michael Jordan's alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), from September 2012 to August 2013, and is familiar with US college basketball (NCAA) and the NBA. He is Japanese and also familiar with Japan basketball and B.LEAGUE (Japan).
- He is presently working as CTO at Guarantee Happiness LLC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States (the town where UNC is located) from January 2020 and as CEO and CTO of Japanese Tar Heel, Inc. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States from June 2022. He is familiar with the latest basketball in United States.
- We have written more than 110 articles on North Carolina and UNC and more than 20 articles on basketball.
- He played basketball in junior high and high school, and was in the top 8 in Chiba Prefecture in junior high school and in the top 16 in Chiba Prefecture in high school (Japan). He has experience playing American basketball with UNC students and North Carolina locals.
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CUE
CUE is an AI basketball robot developed by Toyota.
CUE is named after the English word "cue" in the hope that it will help someone start something new.
The versions of CUE are as follows.
- March 28, 2018: CUE is released
- November 24, 2018: CUE2 is released
- April 10, 2019: CUE3 is released
- November 16, 2019: CUE4 is released
- July 25, 2021: CUE5 is released
- December 24, 2022: CUE6 is released
Introduction Videos of CUE
These are introduction videos of CUE.
CUE5 made a 3-pointer during halftime of the men's basketball game "USA vs. France" at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 25, 2021!
July 2023: Yuta Watanabe vs. CUE6
Here is the video of Yuta Watanabe vs. CUE6 in July 2023.
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Explanatory Video of Toyota's Humanoid Robots (mainly CUE)
This is an explanatory video of Toyota's humanoid robots (mainly CUE) (in Japanese).
It is technically quite difficult, but you who are interested should watch it!
Since our Founder/CEO&CTO Hiroyuki Chishiro's area of expertise is software (especially real-time OS), we will supplement Toyota's explanation of the technology with a focus on software (starting at 26:46 of the video).
The following technologies are mainly used.
- Real-Time OS: Linux with real-time extensions
- Real-Time Communication: EtherCat (real-time Ethernet)
- AI and Robots:
- Learning and inference of motion control by reinforcement learning
- Shot adjustment by Gaussian process
- Shot form search by Bayesian optimization
- Optimization while predicting future responses at each time by model predictive control
- Trajectory generation and control of a biped robot by Zero Moment Point (ZMP)
Summary
We introduced CUE, an AI basketball robot developed by Toyota.
It turned out that CUE uses a Real-Time OS (Linux with real-time extensions).
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