Marc Raibert

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.

In fiction

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Raibert, Marc (1986). Legged Robots that Balance. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68119-6. 
  2. ^ "Boston Dynamics". http://www.bostondynamics.com. Retrieved 2007-06-30.