Marc Raibert

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Marc Raibert is a former MIT professor who founded the MIT Leg Lab in the 1980s, and went on to found Boston Dynamics, a simulation and robotics company. Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics. [1] [2]

[edit] See also

  • BigDog, a self-balancing four-legged pony-sized robot from Boston Dynamics.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Raibert, Marc (1986). Legged Robots that Balance. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68119-6. 
  2. ^ Boston Dynamics. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.

[edit] In fiction

Several of the MIT Leg Lab robots appear in the movie Rising Sun.


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