The Dawn of Robots, AI, and Video Games. This is Tom and Christine Frisina's journey from the San Fernando Valley to Silicon Valley. In 1982, Tom Frisina took a chance on a job with Nolan Bushnell to make robots. This was the beginning of several ventures and 25 years in robotics and video games with some of the most creative talents in the Silicon Valley. All of these ideas challenged the future and took chances to create what the future might need. We were also looking for AI and how we might use it. We were only at the beginning, but we knew there was more.