1. A robotic gesture recognition system to enable control of robotic devices by a human user using gestures and movements that can be recognized by the system comprising: a robotic unit, with one or more electric motors or actuators, motor control amplifiers, power source, omni-directional wheels, gear boxes, vehicle body, chassis with suspension, electric wiring and cabling, control and power supply circuitry; a video camera affixed to the robotic unit, said video camera capable of recording in pixel format, panning, tilting and zooming; a high level control computer in communication with said video camera for enabling recognition of dynamic gesture signals and static poses of a user in pixel space via video imagery recorded by the video camera; said high level control computer operating to store and run a high level of control gesture recognition application code to transform a user's recognized gesture or movement in pixel space to waveform data, and generating user commands therefrom; and a low level control computer in communication with the high level control computer and the robotic unit, said low level control computer capable of storing and running a low level of control gesture recognition application code to transform the user commands received from the high level of control computer to control voltage commands; wherein said robotic unit receives and responds to the control voltage commands received from the low level control computer.