List of robotic dogs

Robotic dogs are quadrupedal robots designed to resemble dogs in appearance and behaviour. As of 2024, various military applications have been seen.[1]
Commercial and research

Quadruped
Boston Dynamics
- BigDog, quadruped robot created by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that is capable of traversing varied terrain and maintaining its balance on ice and snow.
 - LittleDog, another Boston Dynamics' robot that is much smaller than the original BigDog project.
 - Spot
 
Other products

- ANYmal - inspection robot by Swiss firm ANYbotics[2]
 - DEEP Robotics' X30[3][4][5]
 - Ghost Robotics V60,[6][7][1] or Quadruped Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (QUGV).[8]
 - Cheetah, a 2015 MIT creation[9]
 - Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
 - HyQ, hydraulic quadruped robot able to run up to 2 m/s,[10] developed by the Advanced Robotics Department of the IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
 - SCARAB, climbing and walking quadruped robot developed by the Florida A&M University[11]
 - Robot Alliance's product which was combat-tested in Donetsk in August 2024[12]
 - An anonymous firm's technology demonstration on EP05 of 2024 Britain's Got Talent[13]
 
Hexapedal
Consumer

- AIBO (Sony)
 - Big Scratch & Lil' Scratch (Trendmasters)
 - Bow-wow
 - CHiP (WowWee)
 - F.I.D.O.
 - Gaylord (Ideal Toy Company), robotic dog controllable by leash, produced in the 1960s [14]
 - Genibo, robotic dog produced by the Korean company Dasatech.
 - I-Cybie (Silverlit Electronics)
 - iDog (Sega) and (Tiger Electronics)
 - iDog amp'd (Sega) and (Tiger Electronics)
 - iDog Clip (Sega) and (Tiger Electronics)
 - iDog Dance (Sega) and (Tiger Electronics)
 - iDog soft speaker (Sega) and (Tiger Electronics)
 - Lucky the Incredible Wonder Pup (Zizzle)[15]
 - Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings
 - Poo-Chi (Sega) and (Tiger Electronics)
 - Robopet (WowWee)
 - Rocket the Wonder Dog (Fisher Price)
 - Smartpet, robot dog that uses an iPhone to be powered
 - Space Dog (Yoshiya, Wyandotte, and Schyling), aka. "Robo" or "Rover the Space Dog"
 - Spotbot, robotic dog from (Tomy)’s Omnibot family
 - Tekno the Robotic Puppy, also called "Teksta Interactive Robotic Puppy" appeared on the cover of Time magazine
 - Unitree robots, available in six different types: Go2, Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1[16]
 - Wappy Dog
 - Wrex the Dawg, robot dog by WowWee
 - Zoomer & Friends
 - Mi CyberDog from (Xiaomi)
 - Mi CyberDog II’’
 - Jennie, a robotic companion animal designed to be a viable option to a real dog for dementia patients made by Tombot.
 
Joinmax Digital Robot Dog JM-DOG-001], offered as a semi-assembled kit (no soldering required) at $331, it offers a 15 servo-based impressive freedom of motion. Control is possible through a serial connection to the included controller board, or through simple commands sequences stored in memory.[17]
- Flip over dogs – there are many examples of many flip-over dogs designed to look like robots, such as F.I.D.O and Sparky.
 
Dupes
- I Robot, available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi, AIBO knockoffs by Amwell
 - Build Your Own Robo Pup An ERS-7 AIBO bootleg
 
In fiction
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- AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion) a military scouting robot with dog like characteristics in the 2000 film Red Planet
 - A.R.F, a robotic dog from Puppy Dog Pals
 - A.X.L., a robotic dog from the film of the same name.
 - Bhakti, Vanille's pet robot from Final Fantasy XIII
 - Bolts, from Alexander Key's 1966 book, small dog whose head was so small the electronic brain needed to be trimmed.
 - C.H.O.M.P.S. (Canine Home Protection System) in the eponymous film from 1979.
 - Cyber Mastiffs, used by the Adeptus Aribites in Warhammer 40,000
 - Dog, Alyx's robotic pet, has several canine characteristics and was featured in the video games Half-life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
 - Dogbot, robot dog from the Ford Fiesta commercials
 - Dynomutt, Blue Falcon's robotic dog from the animated Hanna-Barbera television show.
 - E-cyboPooch, briefly Professor Dr. Cinnamon J. Scudsworth's robot dog assistant in the 2002 animated show, Clone High. E-cybopooch ultimately reveals himself to be a double agent and is destroyed when Mr. Butlertron, Scudsworth's displaced former assistant, deflects a laser meant for Scudsworth with a pie.
 - Fix-it, a dog-like robot from the Disney Junior show Handy Manny.
 - GIR, crazy alien robot who disguised himself as a green dog in the show Invader Zim.
 - Goddard, from the Jimmy Neutron movie and TV series.
 - K9, the Doctor's portable computer and robot, from the British BBC Television series Doctor Who, as well as the spin-offs K-9 and Company, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K-9.
 - Muffit II, Daggit from Battlestar Galactica.
 - Preston, Wendolene's robot dog from the 1995 animated Wallace and Gromit film A Close Shave. Both K-9 and Preston were created by Bob Baker.
 - Rags, Miles Monroe's pet in the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, who speaks (and woofs) with a human voice.
 - Rat Thing, from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
 - RIC [Robotic Interactive Canine], Power Rangers sidekick / weapon in Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta.
 - Robutt, from Isaac Asimov's short story "A Boy's Best Friend."
 - Robo-Dog from PAW Patrol
 - Rover, Lunar Jim's Robot dog in the children's animation series of the same name.
 - Runner, a rather large robot in the shape of a dog, pet and loyal friend of Grubb, from the PC role-playing video game Septerra Core.
 - Rush and Treble from the Mega Man classic series
 - Rusty, from the 1960s Swift comic strip "The Phantom Patrol".
 - Serendipity Dog, from the 1960s/70s BBC science-themed children's television series Tom Tom.
 - Slamhounds, robotic assassins in the novel Count Zero by William Gibson
 - Sparkplug, Sari's robot dog, like Hasbro's toys in Transformers: Animated.
 - In the Super NES video game Secret of Evermore, the protagonist's pet dog takes the form of a robot in some areas.
 - Sparky, from the 2023 Blumhouse film Five Nights at Freddy's.
 - Spot, Olie Polie's pet robot dog in Rolie Polie Olie.
 - The Mechanical Hound, a robotic hunter killer who serves the firemen as a scent hound in the book Fahrenheit 451. Its mouth conceals a syringe containing tranquilizers.
 - Toby, the robot dog who was the companion of Halo Jones in the classic comic story The Ballad of Halo Jones.
 - Yatterking, Yatterbull, and Yatteryokozuna three robotic dogs in Yatterman
 - FENRIS Mechs from Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, also a DLC dog companion in ME3n
 - Rex from Fallout: New Vegas, a "cyberhound" that can be recruited as a companion from The King in Freeside
 - K-9 from Fallout 2, a "cyberdog" who was created by Dr. Schreber, available as a companion upon the player repairing it.
 - Panzerhund, a deadly canine-looking robot employed by the Nazis in the Wolfenstein games from the 2009 game onward.
 - Servo, a transforming robot emergency-response dog from Transformers: Rescue Bots.
 - The main villain of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) has two deadly robot dogs she named Jet and Bennie after the song of her idol Elton John.
 - The 2017 Black Mirror episode "Metalhead" features a woman pursued by a deadly robotic dog, similar in design to the BigDog robot manufactured by Boston Dynamics.
 - Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated feature Isle of Dogs features dog robots employed by the antagonists to assist their rescue teams and are later proposed as pets to replace real dogs.
 - Blade Wolf, an AI (artificial intelligence) wolf-like robot created by World Marshal, an antagonistic private military company featured in the 2013 Konami video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
 
In art
- Fairfield Industrial Dog Object, FIDO large animated Fairfield Australian dog sculpture
 
In music
- MC Chris wrote a song named robotdog, describing his adventures with his robotic Aibo that takes over his life.
 
Open source
- Open dog - open source robot by James Bruton[18]
 - LOTP Robot Dog V.2 by Halid YILDIRIM (open source)[19]
 
See also
References
- ^ a b Cumming, Ed (19 June 2024). "Britain's killer robot dogs – and the race to put them on the battlefield". The Telegraph.
 - ^ "ANYmal - Autonomous Legged Robot". ANYbotics. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
 - ^ "DEEP Robotics X30 / X30 Pro Robot Dog".
 - ^ "Robot Dog Performs "Parkour" and "Bipedal Walking" | UST". 15 July 2024.
 - ^ "Deep Robotics Launches Robot Dog".
 - ^ "British Army Tests Robotic Dog for Frontline Commands". 8 September 2022.
 - ^ "DE&S Partners with British Army to test Ghost V60 Robotic Dogs". 6 September 2022.
 - ^ "Testing of the Robotic Canine | British Army". 25 July 2022.
 - ^ "MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump". 29 May 2015.
 - ^ "HyQ - IIT's Hydraulic Quadruped Robot - Balancing and First Outdoor Tests". 14 May 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via www.youtube.com.
 - ^ "Scansorial and Cursorial Ambulation in a Robust and Agile roBot (SCARAB) Quadrupedal Runner and Climber".
 - ^ "What We Know About Ukraine's Army of Robot Dogs".
 - ^ "Britain's Got Talent 2024 Robo Dog Audition Full Show w/Comments Season 17 E05". 12 May 2024.
 - ^ "Gaylord the Dog TV Commercial". 14 December 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via www.youtube.com.
 - ^ "..:: Zizzle ::". www.zizzle.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
 - ^ "Unitree Robotics - 宇树科技官网". www.unitree.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
 - ^ "Joinmax Digital Robot Dog". Pololu. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
 - ^ "OpenDog". Hackaday. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
 - ^ Halid, YILDIRIM. "LOTP Robot Dog V.2".