“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.

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.

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.

Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) today announced the launch of Boston Dynamics AI Institute (the Institute), with the goal of making fundamental advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and intelligent machines.

Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) today announced the launch of Boston Dynamics AI Institute (the Institute), with the goal of making fundamental advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and intelligent machines.