Marc Raibert: Half a Century of Innovation, and Still Looking Ahead

Few alive have left as large a mark on robotics as Marc Raibert. After founding and running Boston Dynamics for three decades, the former MIT professor went on to create the RAI Institute. These days, Raibert is exploring physical AI, general-purpose robotics, and the occasional guitar tube amplifier.

Key Moments
00:00: The Hockey Stick Controversy
00:36: Welcome to Automated
01:47: Founding the Robotics and AI Institute
03:14: Choosing Robotics Over Retirement
06:08: Hardware-Agnostic R&D
07:34: Why RAII Avoids Commercial Products
12:16: The Biggest Robotics Boom Yet
20:09: The Birth of Spot
28:08: Reinforcement Learning Breakthroughs
40:50: Where Robots Will Thrive First

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