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This is one robot whose basketball skills you don’t want to challenge. It will beat you every time in a free-throw game, because that’s pretty much all it has been programmed to do.

Meet CUE, the basketball-playing robot designed by the engineers at Toyota. It has been made specifically with perfect free-throw skills, guaranteeing that it never misses.

To test CUE’s accuracy, it was pitted against young, professional basketball players of the Japanese basketball team Alvark Tokyo. Despite the team’s attempts to distract the robot and heckle it, CUE scored every basket and won the contest.