"So this is the interesting part, is the robots at the time were mostly hydraulic robots. Very large robot, heavy robots. There was a robot from Renault that I think it was called the R80. Huge. Eighty kilograms it can carry. And I really didn’t implement my approach on that robot, but I used this cable-driven robot called the MA23 manipulator that was designed and developed by Jean Vertut. Jean Vertut is probably the father of robotics, robot design, in France. And there is a number of very, very influential people in my early career in robotics, and Jean Vertut was one of them. Jean Vertut developed most of the concept that led to cable-driven actuation. The three-fingered hand Kenneth Salisbury developed was based on a lot of those concepts. Many of the robots that were later developed were based on ideas and concepts that Jean Vertut developed. Jean Vertut passed away very quickly years back, and the whole robotics field missed him. But I had this privilege to know him. And also the privilege of having my paper selected by him, my first paper, to be then – the introduction to me to know Professor Roth, who eventually invited me too to come to Stanford."
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