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.
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. Beyond that, he envisages potentially creating a platform for developers once it has established how robots can cut production costs from the prototype to the product level.