Hey Traindog...this was the first thing I ever did in Maya, its a pretty old thread. The body of the bot is Blue from the Learning Maya 7: Foundations book by Alias. If you want how to do it you can follow that tutorial and it will look very close to mine. As for the head, I went on my own little tangent and made a Patlabor/Guyver type head, and just messed around with it.

And johnnyos, thanks...ya a few months ago I was lost in Maya's vastness. It took me awhile to figure out what things like rigged and ik/fk meant. Thanks for the run down again.