Marc Raibert — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for biomechanically motivated analysis, synthesis, control, and application of multi-legged robots.
Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, a Hyundai Motor Group organization.
Founder of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company known for creating BigDog, Atlas, Spot, and Handle.
Founded the Leg Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University in 1980, developing the first self-balancing hopping robots.
Holds a PhD from MIT (1977) and a BSEE from Northeastern University (1973).
Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Biography

Marc Raibert serves as the Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, an organization under Hyundai Motor Group. He is the founder of Boston Dynamics, a robotics company recognized for developing dynamic robots such as BigDog, Atlas, Spot, and Handle. Raibert also holds the position of Chairman at Boston Dynamics.