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.

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.