PJuk: A personal reaction robot

Recently, robots have been increasing their importance in human lives not only in various industries, but also in home usage. This article presents a design and development of a personal reaction robot, called PJuk. PJuk is designed for interaction with human gesture and voice. The user can control the robot via various sensors and tablet on the robots, a joy stick, and a web application. According to the control commands, the robot can change face and outfit, and move its head, shoulders, elbows, hands, and wheels. With multiple functions previously mentioned, we have to allocate the robot resources effectively. The experimental results show that the robot can smoothly interact with human in both automatic and manual modes.