Actually first actual robot that is artificially intelligent was done through 40s by Grey Walter. There is a good historical data on how he did it in here.

The trend continues in my mind spreading to other classes as well. It all started with the Markov chains in algorithmic composition. Honestly I wasn’t expecting that class was going to open up my view so much, it totally gave me that relieved feeling of finding something new and and an urge to explore [...]

Yeah, the winter is on its way and I need to find couple of ideas for the finals.