Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at *IEEE Spectrum* robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ##### ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA ##### Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Enjoy today’s videos! > *Human athletes demonstrate versatile and highly dynamic tennis skills to successfully conduct competitive rallies with a high-speed tennis ball. However, reproducing such behaviors on humanoid robots is difficult, partially due to the lack of perfect humanoid action data or human kinematic motion data in tennis scenarios as reference. In this work, we propose LATENT, a system that Learns Athletic humanoid TEnnis skills from imperfect human motioN daTa.* [ LATENT ] A beautifully designed robot inspired by Strandbeests.…