In summer 1979 Rodney Brooks worked as Hans Moravec's assistant at the Stanford AI Lab, helping test Moravec's self-driving Cart for his PhD thesis.

True if records (Moravec's 1980 PhD thesis and its acknowledgements, Stanford AI Lab history, or accounts by Brooks or Moravec) show that Brooks, then a Stanford graduate student, helped Moravec run tests of the Stanford Cart for Moravec's PhD thesis, around 1979. Mostly true if he helped with the Cart tests but the date was another year close to 1979, or his role is described somewhat differently. Mostly false if he was at the Stanford AI Lab but had no hands-on part in the Cart tests. False if he was not involved.

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1. E1 Obstacle avoidance and navigation in the real world by a seeing robot rover Stanford University Computer Science Department (Stanford AI Lab Memo AIM-340, Report STAN-CS-80-813), by Hans P. Moravec; hosted on SciSpace · September 1980

   “Rod Brooks helped with most aspects of this work during the last two years and especially during the grueling final weeks before the lab move in 19T9.”

E1 is the acknowledgements of Moravec's 1980 Stanford AI Lab PhD thesis on the Cart rover. It says Rod Brooks "helped with most aspects of this work during the last two years and especially during the grueling final weeks before the lab move in 1979" (the source text reads "19T9", which is a scanning error for 1979). This is an independent record from the thesis itself showing that Brooks had a hands-on part in Moravec's Cart work around 1979, which meets the resolution criteria. The acknowledgement does not confirm the exact season, but the criteria only require "around 1979".