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 RSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! Figure is now able to produce 55 robots per week, which will be “allocated to internal research and development groups, data collection, efforts for robots to perform end-to-end housework, and commercial use-case development.” Er, that seems like a lot of robots to be making when commercial use cases are still “in development,” doesn’t it? [ Figure ] The opening of the NEO Factory in Hayward, Calif., marks a fundamental shift in humanoid robotics: The United States’ most vertically integrated robot factory has now begun full-scale production, bringing end-to-end manufacturing of NEO under one roof.

Spanning 58,000 square feet and employing over 200 team members, 1X designs and builds every critical component in-house—motors, batteries…