Who is Marc Raibert?

His central idea changed robotics: balance is not stillness but controlled motion. From it came the one-legged hopper of the eighties, the BigDog mule and the viral video era of Atlas, the humanoid Boston Dynamics is now preparing for Hyundai's factories.

The full story of his forty years, the company's three sales and what it means that a carmaker is now its sole owner is told in The man who taught machines to jump.