Marc Raibert is the executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute. He is responsible for the Institute’s strategic roadmap, which is aimed at creating future generations of advanced robots and the world’s most capable intelligent machines. He is also the founder of Boston Dynamics. Prior to Boston Dynamics, Raibert was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and CMU before that. There he created the Leg Laboratory, a lab that helped establish the scientific basis for highly dynamic robots. Raibert is a Founding Fellow of AAAI, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, was named Pioneer in Robotics in 2022 by IEEE and received the Engelberger Award in Technology.