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"I don't know where to start."
This is probably the biggest excuse you give when starting to learn robotics and artificial intelligence.
In a certain sense, it is not really an excuse. It is perhaps even valid!
In today's day and age there is an abundance of resources made available to each and everyone of us. On the click of a button, you can get access to the best video lectures from the top universities in the world. You get access to novel projects and repositories contributed by great content creators and robotics and machine learning engineers and researchers. A variety of different types of courses are available to each and every one of us at a very nominal cost.
If you are a student and returning to school in the Fall, learning this summer could be a great use of your time. I'd commit to doing some sort of project or real-world application of robotics that you can publish on your resume/CV. You could even follow along on some of the open source tutorials that are out there, just to get experience building something. Then tweak it at the end to do something unique. If you need to make money, then taking up freelancing is a great idea. Be aware it may take a lot of time to set up, but once it starts rolling you will be in good shape, and this experience doing freelancing will serve you in the future as well.
As always though, start with the end in mind. Where is that you really want to get to? What actions this summer will help most you get there, given the current circumstances?