Marc Raibert

Marc Raibert is the Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, a Hyundai Motor Group organization, and the founder, former CEO and now chairman of Boston Dynamics, the robotics company known for BigDog, Atlas, Spot and Handle. He earned a BSEE from Northeastern University in 1973 and a PhD from MIT in 1977, with a dissertation on motor control and learning advised by Berthold Horn and Whitman Richards.

Before starting Boston Dynamics he was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and an associate professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon, where he founded the Leg Laboratory in 1980. The lab helped establish the scientific basis for highly dynamic robots, and Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots. He is a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. TIME's 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI names him executive director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.