Reflex and Emotion-based Behavior Selection for Toy Robot

This paper presents a robotic doll with emotional and reflexive behaviors. The robotic doll imitates an animal´s appearance to provide comfort in human interaction. Emotion is considered to show more natural behaviors and to interact with user more intimately. Behavior is selected based on reflex-ness and emotion. A bear-like robotic doll, GomDoll is developed with the full use of the available degrees of freedom, sensors, and emotional and reflexive architecture implemented on a micro-controller. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture.