Marc Raibert

So that was the first time a bridge was made between those two groups. Then the bridge kind of went away, and then there was another time in the 80s. And then recently, the last five or so years, there's been a stronger connection.

I mean, we were just doing gadgets when we were kids. I had a friend, we were I don't know if everybody remembers, but fluorescent lights had this little aluminum cylinder. I can't even remember what it's called now. You needed a starter, I think it was. We would take those apart, fill them with match heads, put a tail on it, and make it into little rockets.

I mean, we were just doing gadgets when we were kids. I had a friend, we were I don't know if everybody remembers, but fluorescent lights had this little aluminum cylinder. I can't even remember what it's called now. You needed a starter, I think it was. We would take those apart, fill them with match heads, put a tail on it, and make it into little rockets.

I mean, we were just doing gadgets when we were kids. I had a friend, we were I don't know if everybody remembers, but fluorescent lights had this little aluminum cylinder. I can't even remember what it's called now. You needed a starter, I think it was. We would take those apart, fill them with match heads, put a tail on it, and make it into little rockets.

I think it's still a balance between those two. There was a time though when I was, I guess I was probably already a professor or maybe late in graduate school when I thought that function was everything and that mobility, dexterity, perception, and intelligence, those are sort of the key functionalities for robotics, that that's what mattered and nothing else mattered.

I think it's still a balance between those two. There was a time though when I was, I guess I was probably already a professor or maybe late in graduate school when I thought that function was everything and that mobility, dexterity, perception, and intelligence, those are sort of the key functionalities for robotics, that that's what mattered and nothing else mattered.

I think it's still a balance between those two. There was a time though when I was, I guess I was probably already a professor or maybe late in graduate school when I thought that function was everything and that mobility, dexterity, perception, and intelligence, those are sort of the key functionalities for robotics, that that's what mattered and nothing else mattered.

And I even had kind of this platonic ideal that if you just looked at a robot and it wasn't doing anything, it would look like a pile of junk, which a lot of my robots looked like in those days. But then when it started moving, you'd get the idea that it had some kind of life or some kind of interest in its movement.

And I even had kind of this platonic ideal that if you just looked at a robot and it wasn't doing anything, it would look like a pile of junk, which a lot of my robots looked like in those days. But then when it started moving, you'd get the idea that it had some kind of life or some kind of interest in its movement.

And I even had kind of this platonic ideal that if you just looked at a robot and it wasn't doing anything, it would look like a pile of junk, which a lot of my robots looked like in those days. But then when it started moving, you'd get the idea that it had some kind of life or some kind of interest in its movement.

And I think we purposely even designed the machines, not worrying about the aesthetics of the structure itself. But then it turns out that the aesthetics of the thing itself add and combine with the lifelike things that the robots can do. But the heart of it is making them do things that are interesting.

And I think we purposely even designed the machines, not worrying about the aesthetics of the structure itself. But then it turns out that the aesthetics of the thing itself add and combine with the lifelike things that the robots can do. But the heart of it is making them do things that are interesting.

And I think we purposely even designed the machines, not worrying about the aesthetics of the structure itself. But then it turns out that the aesthetics of the thing itself add and combine with the lifelike things that the robots can do. But the heart of it is making them do things that are interesting.

Well, let me tell you about how I got started on legs at all. When I was still a graduate student, I went to a conference. It was a biological legged locomotion conference. I think it was in Philadelphia. So it was all biomechanics people, researchers who would look at muscle and maybe neurons and things like that. They weren't so much computational people, but they were more biomechanics.

Well, let me tell you about how I got started on legs at all. When I was still a graduate student, I went to a conference. It was a biological legged locomotion conference. I think it was in Philadelphia. So it was all biomechanics people, researchers who would look at muscle and maybe neurons and things like that. They weren't so much computational people, but they were more biomechanics.

Well, let me tell you about how I got started on legs at all. When I was still a graduate student, I went to a conference. It was a biological legged locomotion conference. I think it was in Philadelphia. So it was all biomechanics people, researchers who would look at muscle and maybe neurons and things like that. They weren't so much computational people, but they were more biomechanics.

And maybe there were a thousand people there. And I went to a talk. One of the talks, all the talks were about the body of either animals or people and respiration, things like that. But one talk was by a robotics guy, and he showed a six-legged robot that walked very slowly.

And maybe there were a thousand people there. And I went to a talk. One of the talks, all the talks were about the body of either animals or people and respiration, things like that. But one talk was by a robotics guy, and he showed a six-legged robot that walked very slowly.

And maybe there were a thousand people there. And I went to a talk. One of the talks, all the talks were about the body of either animals or people and respiration, things like that. But one talk was by a robotics guy, and he showed a six-legged robot that walked very slowly.

It always had at least three feet on the ground, so it worked like a table or a chair with tripod stability, and it moved really slowly. And I just looked at that and said, Wow, that's wrong. That's not anything like how people and animals work. Because we bounce and fly, we have to predict what's going to happen in order to keep our balance when we're taking a running step or something like that.