"So arriving to Stanford, it was wonderful. We had the AI lab in Margaret Jacks. In the basement of Margaret Jacks, next to the DEC-20. We had a small room with one table and four robots. The AI lab just moved from the hills down to Stanford to the basement of Margaret Jacks. At that time, there were a number of, I mean, extraordinary people that were involved in the AI lab. The AI lab attracted a lot of talent in robotics over the years. Just behind me you can see the Vic Scheinman robot, the Stanford Scheinman arm robot. There were a number of people who were involved in the ‘70s in the AI lab. In the ‘80s when I arrived, we had John Craig was there. Tom Binford was leading the AI lab. My friend, the very famous researcher in both AI and robotics, Rodney Brooks, was there. In fact, many other people came through as visitors. We had also a very famous designer, Ken Salisbury, who was there. There were a number of people from the field of vision. There was Harlan Baker. I don’t want to go over all the names. I have the list and I have their photos. If you would like, we will look at that later. But it was an amazing dynamic environment that I’ve never experienced in my life. It was just the discovery of that exciting place that made me decide to stay one more year and one more year. Then Stanford just kept me forever, because it is very, very difficult to leave this environment. The research environment, the excitement, the opportunities to take on a new project, is really unique. What is interesting also is the fact that while I was at Stanford, I was in France as well, collaborating with my colleagues. I was in fact involved with other collaborations in Japan. In the year ’84, ’83, and in fact December ’83, I visited Japan for the first time, and I had the great, great opportunity of meeting Professor Inoue, Professor Umetani, Hirose, Professor Nakamura, who was a student at the time. And his advisor, Professor Hanafusa, and Professor Yoshikawa, and also a number of, I mean, just pioneers in robotics. All of that was done during one trip I had to Japan in 1983. Since then I kept in touch with all these different laboratories over the years, and that was really an amazing experience. What I discovered about Stanford and about the AI lab is the fact that what we are doing is so much connected to the world, and that became one of the other dimension for my research."