Boston Dynamics is an engineering and robotics design company that is best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for with funding from DARPA.
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Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, is developing advanced robots that can gallop like a cheetah, negotiate 10 inches of snow, walk upright on two legs and even open doors and deliver packages. Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics in 1992.
That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think.
“I love building robots. And my long-term goal is to build robots that can do what people and animals do. And there’s three things in particular that we’re interested in. One is balance and dynamic mobility, the second one is mobile manipulation, and the third one is mobile perception.
I think it won’t be too long until we have robots like this in our homes, and one of the big needs is to take care of the aging and invalids. I think that it won’t be too long till we’re using robots to help take care of our parents, or probably more likely, have our children help take care of us. And there’s a bunch of other things. I think the sky’s the limit. Many of the ideas we haven’t thought of yet, and people like you will help us think of new applications.”So what about the dark side? What about the military? Are they interested?
“Sure, the military has been a big funder of robotics. I don’t think the military is the dark side myself, but I think, as with all advanced technology, it can be used for all kinds of things.”
