Marc Raibert is a former MIT professor who founded the MIT Leg Lab in the 1980s, and went on to found Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics is an engineering and robotics design company best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military with funding from DARPA, and DI-Guy, COTS software for realistic human simulation...

, a simulation and robotics company in 1992. Raibert developed the first self-balancing hopping robots, a significant step forward in robotics.
Raibert earned a BSEE from Northeastern University in 1973 and a Ph.D from MIT in 1977.

In fiction

Several of the MIT Leg Lab robots appear in the movie Rising Sun

Rising Sun (film)

Rising Sun is a [1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery , Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa...

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See also

• BigDog
  BigDog
  BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot created in 2005 by Boston Dynamics with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station. BigDog is long, stands tall, and weighs , about the size of a small mule. It is capable of traversing...
  
  , a self-balancing four-legged pony-sized robot from Boston Dynamics.