Marc Raibert

Recognized Creator of the Most Advanced Dynamic Robots in the World such as Spot "The Robot Dog"

"I happen to believe that robotics will be bigger than the Internet. The Internet lets every person reach out and touch all the information in the world. But robotics lets you reach out and touch and manipulate all the stuff in the world — and so it is not just restricted to information, it is everything."

Marc Raibert is executive director of The AI Institute, a new research organization devoted to creating future generations of advanced intelligent robots.

He is the founder of Boston Dynamics, a company that develops advanced robots, such as BigDog, Atlas, Spot and Stretch, where he was CEO from 1992 to 2019, and where he continues on the Board of Directors.

Prior to Boston Dynamics, Raibert was a professor at MIT in EECS and the AI Lab, and before that was associate professor in Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. At those institutions Raibert created the Leg Laboratory, a lab that helped establish the scientific basis for highly dynamic robots.

Raibert is a founding fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

He was named Pioneer in Robotics in 2022 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), received the 2022 Engelberger Award, and named to Top 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 by Time magazine. Two of Raibert's robots were inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame.