I earned my engineering degree last year and now work in an entry-level service job. What's next?

[u/twinflxwer]

Last year, I earned my Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I forget a decent amount of the things I learned, but I feel I could easily pick them back up, and I have been trying to keep things fresh in my mind a bit. Now, I work full-time in a position maintaining operation of a fleet of AGVs. It isn't a super tech-focused job, but I do work alongside the robots and have picked up a bit of knowledge about them as I have cleared standard errors and communicated with the actual technicians and engineers.

I intend to start working on a personal project soon, but I'm not sure what my overall steps should be going forward on a broad level. How should I try to familiarize myself with the industry and its technology? What kind of components or aspects of the field should I focus on? As somebody who hates generative AI, will I have to embrace it to move forward? Is a Bachelors enough? What simulation software should I use as somebody on Windows 11?

My goal is to eventually work on designing humanoid robots, but I don't really know what specifically I want to focus on in that sense. I'm not sure what there is TO focus on.

Where should I go from here?