Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after 30 years at the company

In Brief

Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts robotics company known for its four-legged robots and humanoids, is going done a enactment change. 

Robert Playter announced successful an interior memo connected Tuesday that helium would beryllium stepping down arsenic the company’s main executive, as archetypal reported by A3. Amanda McMaster, the company’s chief fiscal officer, will basal successful for the apical occupation portion the company looks for a replacement.  

TechCrunch reached retired to Boston Dynamics for much information.  

Playter took the helm astatine Boston Dynamics successful 2020, taking implicit from laminitis Marc Raibert. Playter worked astatine Boston Dynamics for 30 years wherever helium held different roles, including vice president of engineering, and main operating officer.  

Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992 by Raibert arsenic a spinoff from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where helium was a professor. Google’s genitor institution Alphabet bought Boston Dynamics successful 2013, before the institution was sold to Japanese investing conglomerate SoftBank successful 2017.

Hyundai, its existent owner, acquired the institution successful 2021.

The robotics shaper is best known for its quadruped robot, Spot, which the institution commercialized successful 2020 soon aft Playter took the helm. The company most precocious announced Atlas, a humanoid robot.  

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