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RAI Institute (Robotics and AI Institute, ex Boston Dynamics AI Institute)
United States
Opened a Zurich office in 2025 and signed a donation agreement with the ETH Foundation USA funding joint robotics research with ETH Zurich.
AffiliationOrganisation de recherche indépendante financée par Hyundai Motor Group et Boston Dynamics
CountryUS
TypeCorporate
Research areasreinforcement learning, legged locomotion, dexterous manipulation, hardware design
Flagship contributionCo-developed with Boston Dynamics a shared whole-body reinforcement learning pipeline for the electric Atlas humanoid, producing both natural walking gaits and gymnastic moves via zero-shot sim-to-real transfer.
Key peopleMarc Raibert (fondateur de Boston Dynamics, dirigeant du RAI Institute), Marco Hutter (dirige le nouveau bureau de Zurich, professeur à l'ETH Zurich)
Open outputsAucun accès ouvert significatif identifié (code/modèles non publiés).
CityCambridge (Massachusetts)
Sources : RAI Institute (2026-06)Boston Dynamics (2025-02-05)ETH Zurich (2025-09)
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