{"id":20626,"date":"2026-02-10T21:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20626"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:23:18","slug":"boston-dynamics-ceo-robert-playter-steps-down-after-30-years-at-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=20626","title":{"rendered":"Boston Dynamics CEO\u00a0Robert Playter\u00a0steps\u00a0down after 30 years at the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts robotics company\u00a0known for its four-legged robots and\u00a0humanoids,\u00a0is going through a leadership change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Playter announced in an internal memo on Tuesday that he would be stepping down as the company\u2019s chief executive, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.automate.org\/robotics\/industry-insights\/boston-dynamics-ceo-robert-playter-steps-down\">as first reported by A3<\/a>. Amanda McMaster, the company\u2019s\u00a0chief financial officer,\u00a0will stand in for the top job while the company\u00a0looks\u00a0for a replacement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch reached out to Boston Dynamics for more information.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playter took the helm at Boston Dynamics in 2020, taking over from founder Marc Raibert. Playter worked at Boston Dynamics for 30 years where he held other roles, including vice president of engineering, and chief operating officer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boston Dynamics\u00a0was founded in\u00a01992 by Raibert as a spinoff from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,\u00a0where he was a professor. Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet bought Boston Dynamics in 2013,\u00a0before the company was sold to Japanese investing conglomerate SoftBank in 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hyundai, its current owner, acquired the company in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The robotics producer is\u00a0best known for its quadruped robot, Spot,\u00a0which the company commercialized in 2020 shortly after Playter took the helm. The company\u00a0most recently announced Atlas, a humanoid robot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 23, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/10\/boston-dynamics-ceo-robert-playter-steps-down-after-30-years-at-the-company\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Dynamics, the Massachus&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[420,2054,3970,7400,951,11611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}