Marc Raibert (born December 22, 1949) 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 in 1992. Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics. [1][2] Raibert earned a BSEE from Northeastern University in 1973 and a Ph.D from MIT in 1977.
Several of the MIT Leg Lab robots appear in the movie Rising Sun.