[oohiggins]

Thank you for the inspiring post.

I began as an electronics hobbyist in the 6th grade in 1966, as a computer programming hobbyist in late 80's, but have never had any projects which would fit squarely within "robotics".

Your post sent me on a wonderful, hours long web search beginning at the English Wikipedia "Robotics" article. From there I found William Grey Walter and his interesting "Machina speculatrix" robots.

His book, "The Living Brain, W. W. Norton & Company, New York (1953) ISBN 978-0393001532" is available for borrowing (with login) at the Internet Archive at <https://archive.org/details/livingbrain00walt>.

This will be the beginning of my new robotics hobby.