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DARPA is providing Boston Robotics hardware platforms to some university teams.

Good catch - I just assumed it was related to Boston Dynamics because the tech looks so similar. Rookie error.

MIT is probably developing advanced algorithms for the Boston Dynamics platform.

I actually can't find any information on their site that that's the case either. I'd have thought they would mention that if it were the case, and this looks a bit different from any of the Boston Dynamics ones I could find.

Since Google owns Boston Dynamics, perhaps this has been 'spun out' or is otherwise detached. There are some pretty strict IP rules in Google and at MIT so it would make sense to spin this out. But either way it is confusing to have the same name on a robot that looks the same but with two different parent institutions.