Introducing Theia, a vision foundation model for robotics developed by researchers at The AI Institute. By using multiple off-the-shelf vision foundation models as a basis, Theia generates rich visual representations for robot policy learning.

The annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) takes place this week, November 6-9 in Munich, Germany. Read on to learn more about our accepted publications.

“In the future, an era of intelligent robots that can think for themselves and solve problems will open.” Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics and director of the AI ​​Institute, meets with reporters at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul.

The AI Institute’s new Zurich head will focus on reliable, mobile robots. Evan Ackerman from IEEE Spectrum sits down with Marco Hutter to discuss new Zurich office.

Stefanie Tellex is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Her work at the AI Institute focuses on developing foundation models for navigation and skill learning.

Marc Raibert, the executive director of The AI Institute and founder of Boston Dynamics, sits down with podcast host Lex Fridman.

Boston Dynamics’ legged robots won the internet by doing parkour and dancing to classic R&B. The company’s founder Marc Raibert now leads an institute trying to make the machines more independent.

The AI Institute has announced that Dr. Marco Hutter will be joining the Institute to lead its new Zurich office. Under Dr. Hutter’s leadership, the Zurich team will advance the development of agile and dexterous intelligent machines.

To support further growth and attract the best talent in Europe, the AI Institute is opening an office in Zurich in early 2024. The Zurich team will work to further advance intelligent, agile, and dexterous robotic systems that will operate in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

The AI Institute has hired Dr. Kate Darling to lead its study of ethics and societal impact. In this role, Darling will lead a team of researchers to explore key societal questions related to the development of intelligent machines.

Marc Raibert does not have a whole lot of respect for robots—which is funny coming from a man who has chosen to spend much of his professional life with them. “Robots are as dumb as toasters, they’re as dumb as doorknobs,” he says. “They do what you tell them to do, but you usually need a pretty well-defined environment in which they can do it.”

When Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, he wasn’t even sure it was going to be a robotics company. Now, Boston Dynamics is the authority in legged robots, and Raibert has turned his focus toward the long-term vision of what robotics can be.

In this episode, we replay the keynote fireside chat between Steve Crowe and Marc Raibert from the Robotics Summit & Expo 2023. Marc talks about the development of quadruped and bipedal robots over the years, and how Boston Dynamics evolved to its current product line.

It’s been claimed artificial intelligence will be as revolutionary as mobile phones or the internet, but there are fears that developments in AI could come at the cost of jobs. We assess the pros and cons of this rapidly-evolving technology, with insight from Marc Raibert, Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

I Was There When is an oral history project that’s part of the In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs and watershed moments in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them.

Founder Marc Raibert discusses the city of the firm’s birth and his plans to advance robotic and AI research with TechCrunch's Brain Heater.

At the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IROS TV sits down for a discussion with Dr. Marc Raibert, the Executive Director of the AI Institute and Founder of Boston Dynamics, about the philosophy of robotics research and development.

Boston Dynamics AI Institute Executive Director Marc Raibert joins Emily Chang to discuss their work with Hyundai and their $400 million investment to set up the Institute, and discuss the state of artificial intelligence and robotics development.

It took a while before we got back to robotics. Sony was really the trigger—we’d worked for them quietly for about five years and made a running AIBO which never saw the light of day, and then we worked on their little humanoid QRIO, building tools that made it possible to do choreography.

The pairing has, thus far, been something of a mixed bag. As Boston Dynamics looks to pragmatic applications to commercialize robots like Spot and Stretch, Hyundai has used the technology for some wild sci-fi demos, including one at this year’s CES featuring Spot hanging out on Mars as a metaverse avatar.