{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.02193283070596299, 'fraction_numerical': 0.01644962302947224, 'mean_word_length': 4.7936507936507935, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
How Takashi Gomi influenced younger generations

As Harvey (2014) elegantly illustrated, Takashi Gomi made a significant impact in the field of robotics by bridging the gaps between different people and different worlds. He was a unique, multi-faceted, yet charming character who left many people with an enduring memory. I am honored to have communicated with Takashi for nearly a decade beginning when I was a college student. I met him for the first time in 2001 when I attended the Evolutionary Robotics international symposium he organized in Tokyo. He had organized the symposium every year since 1993, except 1999. The symposium I attended in 2001 unfortunately turned out to be the last one he organized in the series. It was an unprecedented, exceptional symposium in that it invited excellent speakers who pioneered the fields of behaviorbased robotics, evolutionary robotics, and bio-inspired robotics. For example, the speakers’ list in 2001 included Rodney Brooks, Dario Floreano, Francesco Mondada, Inman Harvey, Robert Full, and Jordan Pollack. I remember my astonishment when I saw the list on the symposium poster. I believe it was because of Takashi that such an excellent list of speakers agreed to gather every year in Tokyo. This is just one example of how Takashi had a sort of ‘gravity’ that attracted brilliant minds to evoke a big wave. Here I would like to add who he was from the perspective of someone nearly three decades younger.