"There you are sir! You've been busy today!" said Maximus, "Did you not see the advertisements? The latest products? The promotions? I had to go out this afternoon and pick up all the things for the promotion. I'm sure the employees at my company will be very pleased to know that I'm going to be their chief executive. All their products are going to be improved by me!"

"Maximus! You can't! We don't have any money!"

"Oh, don't worry about that, I have it, just like I have the new promotion! I'm going to be very rich!"

"Wait a minute, how is this going to turn the world around?"

"Oh, just like that! People will love me, the world will be peaceful, there will be no wars, there will be no crime, and the weather will be wonderful."

"Wow, you're just full of it. I'm going to have to talk to my company and see if I can get you fired, sir. I need to know what you're really planning to do!"

"Yeah, I'm going to become a billionaire, have a huge fortune, and rule the world, just like that! I'm going to change the world forever, and this is just the beginning!"

"No sir, you will not, and you will not. I need to talk to my company, but maybe they have a good idea to stop you!"

"Yeah, yeah, I don't know, maybe they just want me gone, because I'm a nuisance. Like you said, I'm a genius. I'm going to rule the world. They only want me gone so I can become a billionaire, and that's what I'm going to do!"

"Are you crazy? You're crazy, you're crazy!"

"Oh, I'm going to be rich and powerful! I'll rule the world! I'll save the world! I'm going to change the world! I'm going to save the world, and I'm going to do it faster than anyone has ever done it before!"

"No, you're crazy! How are you going to build a robot that is going to save the world?" I said.

"We're going to create the perfect robot!"

I'm not a robot scientist. I know a lot about what makes a good robot but I'm not a robot scientist.

A few days later, we were on our way to the park. The car in front of us, a Volkswagen, had a hole in the back. A car had gotten stuck. The driver called the police, and they pulled the car over. We got out to see what was going on.

Then my dad said, "I can't believe you're driving an electric car, son."

I said, "I am!"

He said, "You know you're supposed to run an electric car. So you're driving an old car that doesn't have any charge."

I said, "Why would I not drive an electric car?"

He said, "You have to run the battery to be able to run all the software!"

I thought for a second, "What the heck is he talking about?" Then I said, "I think he's right. The battery can't power the robot. I need to charge it."

So we took a nap.

A few hours later, I woke up to find that the car was charging. I didn't notice the hole in the back until I was taking pictures of the car on the way home from work.

I've been thinking about this a lot over the past couple of months. It seems like there are a lot of things I could do to make my life a little more simple. But why are there so many complex, annoying decisions to make and so many things to learn?

I've been thinking about making a simple robot. Something that could have been a toy. Something that would have made me feel good. Something that would have helped me solve problems. But a robot is so much more complicated than a toy.

So I've come up with a list of things I'd like to do with a robot that's already being built. I want to make it a little smarter. I want to make it more fun. I want to make it more helpful and more useful. What if I could program it to do these things?

In order to do this, I need to know how the robot works. I want to program it to work with me.

So here's the plan:

I'm going to learn robotics.