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Marc Raibert

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

What the connection was is that at that point, Boston Dynamics was mostly a physics-based simulation company. When I left MIT to start Boston Dynamics, there was a few years of overlap, but the concept wasn't to start a robot company. The concept was to use this dynamic simulation tool that we developed to do robotics for other things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

What the connection was is that at that point, Boston Dynamics was mostly a physics-based simulation company. When I left MIT to start Boston Dynamics, there was a few years of overlap, but the concept wasn't to start a robot company. The concept was to use this dynamic simulation tool that we developed to do robotics for other things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

But working with Sony, we got back into robotics by doing the AIBO Runner. We made some tools for programming Curio, which was a humanoid this big that could do some dancing and other kinds of fun stuff. And I don't think it ever reached the market, even though they did show it. When I look back, I say that we got us back where we belonged. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

But working with Sony, we got back into robotics by doing the AIBO Runner. We made some tools for programming Curio, which was a humanoid this big that could do some dancing and other kinds of fun stuff. And I don't think it ever reached the market, even though they did show it. When I look back, I say that we got us back where we belonged. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

But working with Sony, we got back into robotics by doing the AIBO Runner. We made some tools for programming Curio, which was a humanoid this big that could do some dancing and other kinds of fun stuff. And I don't think it ever reached the market, even though they did show it. When I look back, I say that we got us back where we belonged. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

That's right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

That's right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

That's right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

One of the robots that we built wasn't actually a robot. It was a surgical simulator, but it had force feedback. So it had all the techniques of robotics. And you look down into this... mirror it actually was. And it looked like you were looking down onto the body you were working on. Your hands were underneath the mirror, so they were where you were looking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

One of the robots that we built wasn't actually a robot. It was a surgical simulator, but it had force feedback. So it had all the techniques of robotics. And you look down into this... mirror it actually was. And it looked like you were looking down onto the body you were working on. Your hands were underneath the mirror, so they were where you were looking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

One of the robots that we built wasn't actually a robot. It was a surgical simulator, but it had force feedback. So it had all the techniques of robotics. And you look down into this... mirror it actually was. And it looked like you were looking down onto the body you were working on. Your hands were underneath the mirror, so they were where you were looking.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

And you had tools in your hands that were connected up to these force feedback devices made by another MIT spin-out, Sensible Technologies. So they made the force feedback device. We attached the tools and we wrote all the software and did all the graphics. So we had 3D computer graphics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

And you had tools in your hands that were connected up to these force feedback devices made by another MIT spin-out, Sensible Technologies. So they made the force feedback device. We attached the tools and we wrote all the software and did all the graphics. So we had 3D computer graphics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

And you had tools in your hands that were connected up to these force feedback devices made by another MIT spin-out, Sensible Technologies. So they made the force feedback device. We attached the tools and we wrote all the software and did all the graphics. So we had 3D computer graphics.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

It was in the old days when, this was in the late 90s, when you had a silicon graphics computer that was about this big. It was the heater in the office, basically. And we were doing surgical operations, anastomosis, which was stitching tubes together, tubes like blood vessels or other things in their body. And you could feel and you could see the tissues move. And it was really exciting.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

It was in the old days when, this was in the late 90s, when you had a silicon graphics computer that was about this big. It was the heater in the office, basically. And we were doing surgical operations, anastomosis, which was stitching tubes together, tubes like blood vessels or other things in their body. And you could feel and you could see the tissues move. And it was really exciting.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

It was in the old days when, this was in the late 90s, when you had a silicon graphics computer that was about this big. It was the heater in the office, basically. And we were doing surgical operations, anastomosis, which was stitching tubes together, tubes like blood vessels or other things in their body. And you could feel and you could see the tissues move. And it was really exciting.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

And the idea was to make a trainer to teach surgeons how to do stuff. We built a scoring system because we interviewed surgeons that told us what you're supposed to do and what you're not supposed to do. You're not supposed to tear the tissue. You're not supposed to touch it in any place except for where you're trying to engage. There were a bunch of rules.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

And the idea was to make a trainer to teach surgeons how to do stuff. We built a scoring system because we interviewed surgeons that told us what you're supposed to do and what you're not supposed to do. You're not supposed to tear the tissue. You're not supposed to touch it in any place except for where you're trying to engage. There were a bunch of rules.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

And the idea was to make a trainer to teach surgeons how to do stuff. We built a scoring system because we interviewed surgeons that told us what you're supposed to do and what you're not supposed to do. You're not supposed to tear the tissue. You're not supposed to touch it in any place except for where you're trying to engage. There were a bunch of rules.