[sbarre]

The stuff that Boston Dynamics is doing with DARPA funding feels like a current-generation parallel to how DARPA funded the early efforts at building the Internet.

I suspect we will look back on these guys as some of the early pioneers of the yet-to-come ubiquitous robotics era.

[mempko]

ARPA funded the early efforts of building the internet.... the D came later

[sbarre]

Thanks for the clarification

[drivers99]

Both, really: 'ARPA, was renamed to "DARPA" (for Defense) in March 1972, then renamed "ARPA" again in February 1993, and then renamed "DARPA" again in March 1996.' (Copied from wikipedia.)

[mpyne]

And each time some General somewhere noted 'Reorganized unit to align with modern mission goals' as a performance evaluation bullet item for themselves.