The company strengthens its iconic team of AI Robotics luminaries
Nimble, an autonomous logistics and AI robotics company, today announced the appointment of Marc Raibert to its board of directors. This appointment further demonstrates the company’s unwavering dedication to inventing the next generation of intelligent robotic systems.
“Marc is an icon in the robotics world and he has been an inspiration to me for many years. We are thrilled to add his knowledge and guidance to our already impressive board,” said Simon Kalouche, founder and CEO of Nimble.
With this appointment, Nimble’s Board of Directors includes:
- Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director of Stanford’s AI Institute, White House AI Task Force Member and creator of ImageNet. Former Chief Scientist of AI at Google, Director of Stanford’s AI Lab, and Board Director at Twitter.
- Sebastian Thrun, Founder of Google X and Waymo (Google’s self-driving car subsidiary). Co-founder of Udacity and CEO of KittyHawk. Formerly Director of Stanford’s AI Lab (SAIL).
- Marc Raibert, Founder and Chairman of Boston Dynamics, Executive Director of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and formerly professor at MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
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Raibert brings to Nimble more than three decades of experience in research, development and commercialization of advanced robotics. After founding Boston Dynamics in 1992 as a spin-out from MIT, he led the company to become a global leader in robotics, creating cutting-edge systems such as BigDog, Atlas, Handle and commercialized robots Spot and Stretch.
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“I am excited to work with Simon, Sebastian, Fei-Fei and the rest of Nimble’s remarkable team to help them further advance and scale the AI robotic systems they are developing for logistics,” Raibert commented.
