Boing Boing: NASA/DARPA "Robonaut" and Boba Fett -- separated at birth?

Friday, May 28, 2004

NASA/DARPA "Robonaut" and Boba Fett -- separated at birth?

DARPA, the folks behind the creepy eye in the pyramid Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness logo, and the short-lived terrorism futures market (FutureMAP), have been at work on a robot for NASA that looks suspiciously like Boba Fett from Star Wars! Could it be an Episode 3 tie-in?

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