A tennis playing humanoid robot, a horse quadruped, and hand dexterity feature in this edition of Video Friday, showcasing the latest robotics advances.

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IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup features a humanoid robot learning tennis from imperfect human motion data using the LATENT system, a robot horse quadruped inspired by Strandbeests, Boston Dynamics Atlas hardware design discussion, dexterous apple-peeling with dual robot hands using MoDE-VLA, biodegradable soft robots, autonomous drone flocking in forests, and several other robotics research highlights from labs including KAIST, University of Michigan, and Stanford.

Videos: Tennis Playing Humanoid Robot, Horse Quadruped