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About Marc Raibert
- Marc Raibert (born December 22, 1949) is the founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company known for creating BigDog, Atlas, Spot, and Handle.
- Before starting Boston Dynamics, Raibert was professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and an associated professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.
- At CMU he founded the Leg Laboratory (1980), a lab that helped establish the scientific basis for highly dynamic robots.
- Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics.
- Raibert earned an Electrical Engineering, BSEE from Northeastern University in 1973 and a PhD from MIT in 1977.
- His dissertation is entitled "Motor control and learning by the state space model".
- Raibert is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Raibert's dream is to advance bipedal and quadrupedal robotics to a supernatural state.
- Boston Dynamics was acquired by Google in December 2013.
- On the acquisition, Raibert commented that he was "excited by Andy Rubin and Google’s ability to think very, very big...
- with the resources to make it happen." In March 2016, Google began offering Boston Dynamics for sale.
- The company was acquired by SoftBank in June 2017.
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