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You should first decide what you want the thing to do.
Read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Dummies-Cathleen-Shamieh/dp/0470286970
Or check youtube for intro to electronics/circuits videos, there are tons. You'll need to be able to read an electrical schematic, since you're going to have to create one.
Then get yourself a microcontroller like a Raspberry Pi.
Then watch some coding tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrUvhzz5bRs
You'll need a multimeter, a soldering iron, wire strippers, crimping tools, basic hand tools. You should also watch some videos on how to properly fabricate wiring harnesses. You'll need a working knowledge of fasteners and materials.
Don't set out to make a robot your first project. Start small, like getting an LED to spell out "Hello World" in morse code or something. Move up to something with one moving part that does only one thing. Up the complexity of your projects as you go.
Okay, you're definitely at the beginning. I'll clarify a few things and then recommend some resources.
I feel like I've gone off on a few tangents, but just ask for clarification if you want. I'd be happy to point you towards other resources.
Have you tried Electronics for Dummies?
No I'm not joking, you you with the pretentious comment about it being to basic, hop on your bike.
Seriously you seem like someone who doesn't need a 1000 page plus text book with chapters only relevant on certain applications right now, you can find Electronics for Dummies on Amazon second hand for almost nothing, its written with the plan to make you understand how a circuit works and form the very basic overview of schematics and electronic theory. At only 350 ish pages long and in rather large print you'll fly though it and give you a good notion of the basics and a clue about more advanced stuff.
Whats that, you wanted something dripping with physics and complicated maths? Hows about Microelectronics by Jacob Millman and Arvin Grabel, it has a good portion of its content for Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineers and looooooooooooooooooooooootttttttttts of math, it covers everything from how logic circuits work to the nitty gritty of circuit design. expect diagrams and plot charts with schematics and a brief explination of the circuits depicted as well as the math that shows how it all works. http://books.google.ie/books/about/Microelectronics.html?id=-yFTAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
Why am I suggesting these books? Well these are on my desk. One of them has taught me a fair bit and the other has confused the snot out of me, guess which one did what.