[jpsb]

Please suggest a book on programming robots. I'm interested and have a few ideas. I have always wanted to build smart machines but don't know where to being to learn how.

[RightWhale]

What I did was go to amazon.com and search on robotics. There is a lot of stuff, I picked out a couple of the cheaper books. Actually, I'm not entirely new to this field, did some work years ago in LISP and Prolog. Check out Lego, they have a starter robotics kit with most of the types of devices in the box that one should learn how to program. Legos in space!