Twenty-five years after founding Boston Dynamics, Marc Raibert, said his company has started to “turn a corner to think about making a product and finding some narrower applications”. Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert — and the team’s latest Robot, Spot Mini — joined us onstage at Disrupt London 2016 to discuss this. The company has made robots that can walk, on two legs or four, but until now has operated in a research capacity. While he declined to offer a roadmap, he mentioned areas of interests including elderly assistance and deliver goods using robots rather than drones. In the US, there are currently no laws governing how much autonomy companies should be allowed with their robots.
Twenty-five years after founding Boston Dynamics, Marc Raibert, said his company has started to “turn a corner to think about making a product and finding some narrower applications”. The company has made robots that can walk, on two legs or four, but until now has operated in a research capacity. While he declined to offer a roadmap, he mentioned areas of interests including elderly assistance and deliver goods using robots rather than drones. In the US, there are currently no laws governing how much autonomy companies should be allowed with their robots.