In 1977 Rodney Brooks joined the Hand-Eye group at the Stanford AI Laboratory, working on vision for his PhD.

True if records show Brooks joined the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) in 1977 as a PhD student and worked in its Hand-Eye group on computer vision (his PhD was on the ACRONYM vision system). Mostly true if he joined SAIL in 1977 but the group's name or the exact join timing (late 1976 or 1978) differs slightly. Mixed if he did vision work at SAIL but not in the Hand-Eye group, or arrived at a clearly different time. Mostly false if he was at Stanford but neither in that group nor working on vision. False if he did not join SAIL around then.

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1. E1 Brooks, Rodney oral history - Video - 102792871 - CHM Computer History Museum · 2 June 2023

   “After completing his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Flinders University of South Australia, he arrived at Stanford in 1977, where he pursued a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, working with advisor Thomas Binford of the hand-eye group.”

2. E2 CVPR Invited Talk Revisiting Old Ideas With Modern Hardware CVPR 2023 (Computer Vision Foundation conference site) · 27 March 2023

   “Rodney Brooks came to the US from Australia in 1977. His PhD (1981) work at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab was in model based computer vision in the "hand-eye group".”

3. E3 The Origin of Robot Arm Programming Languages rodneybrooks.com · 14 February 2021 Own record

   “I showed up for my first day of classes on September 26th, 1977, and that day I was also one of three new students (only three that whole year!!) to start as research assistants at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).”

E1, a Computer History Museum biography, says Brooks arrived at Stanford in 1977 to do a PhD in AI under Thomas Binford of the hand-eye group. E2, from the CVPR 2023 conference site, says his PhD work at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab was in model-based computer vision in the "hand-eye group", and that he came to the US in 1977. Brooks's own account (E3) gives September 1977 as when he started as a research assistant at SAIL. Neither independent source names ACRONYM, but together they confirm the year, the lab, the group and that his PhD was on vision.