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by sbarre 4726 days ago
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.

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ARPA funded the early efforts of building the internet.... the D came later
Thanks for the clarification
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.)
And each time some General somewhere noted 'Reorganized unit to align with modern mission goals' as a performance evaluation bullet item for themselves.