Boston Dynamic’s legged robots won the internet by doing parkour and dancing to classic R&B. The company’s founder Marc Raibert now leads an institute trying to make the machines more independent.
ANYONE CURRENTLY WORRYING about artificial intelligence taking over the world may want to swing by the Boston Dynamics AI Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While walking around, they’d see that the robots that might lead a future uprising are still trying to tie their shoelaces, metaphorically speaking.
The Institute’s founder and executive director, Marc Raibert, has built some of the world’s most famous robots at his previous venture, Boston Dynamics. The company, acquired by Hyundai in 2020, has developed legged machines capable of running, leaping, and of course dancing with spryness that can veer into the uncanny.
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