Fans watching Team USA lose to France on television during the Tokyo Olympics witnessed an unusual scene unfold at halftime: a metallic humanoid robot wheeling out onto the court for a special ...

Earlier this year, fans watching basketball at the Tokyo Olympics were treated to halftime entertainment in the form of a basketball shooting robot that shot from the free throw line, three-point line ...

Now, granted, there are some limitations. First off, basketball robot appears to be even slower on the free throw line than Giannis Antetokounmpo, and we didn't think that was possible. Plus, mobility ...

In the long list of tasks we'd like humanoid robots to perform for us, shooting hoops is probably close to the bottom – if it makes the list at all. But the CUE bot from Toyota recently set its second ...