1. Marc Raibert was born on December 22,1949 and is the Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, a Hyundai Motor Group organization.
10 Facts About Marc Raibert
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Marc Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics.
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Marc Raibert earned an Electrical Engineering, BSEE from Northeastern University in 1973 and a PhD from MIT in 1977.
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Marc Raibert's dissertation was titled "Motor control and learning by the state space model" and was advised by Berthold Horn and Whitman Richards.
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Marc Raibert is a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
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Marc Raibert was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for biomechanically motivated analysis, synthesis, control, and application of multi-legged robots.
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Marc Raibert's dream is to advance bipedal and quadrupedal robotics to a supernatural state.
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Marc Raibert was a keynote speaker at the 2016 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.
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On May 11,2018 Marc Raibert took part in TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics 2018 where he spoke about the SpotMini robot that Boston Dynamics will begin to sell in 2019.
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On November 16,2022, Marc Raibert presented at Bloomberg's New Economy Forum in Singapore about the future of robotics and the mission of The AI Institute.