Robotic dogs are quadrupedal robots designed to resemble dogs in appearance and behaviour. As of 2024, various military applications have been seen.
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
Unitree
Unitree B1, industrial quadruped robot with modified versions developed for firefighting applications. Unitree B2, industrial quadruped robot designed for industrial inspection applications. Unitree B2-W, wheel-legged variant of the Unitree B2 industrial quadruped robot designed for high-mobility applications including inspection and potential search and rescue support. Unitree As2-W, wheel-legged quadruped robot designed for industrial and outdoor applications.
ANYbotics ANYmal – inspection robot by Swiss firm ANYbotics.
DEEP Robotics X30.
Ghost Robotics V60, or Quadruped Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (QUGV).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cheetah, a 2015 MIT creation.
U.S. Army Research Laboratory / University of Pennsylvania Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia HyQ, hydraulic quadruped robot able to run up to 2 m/s, developed by the Advanced Robotics Department of the IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia).
Florida A&M University SCARAB, climbing and walking quadruped robot developed by the Florida A&M University.
Robot Alliance Product which was combat-tested in Donetsk in August 2024.
Unidentified company Anonymous firm's technology demonstration on EP05 of 2024 Britain's Got Talent.
Hexapedal Rise, hexaped. Rhex, hexaped robot.
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 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) 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 Robotics, available in six different types: Go2, Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1 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.
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 “Smart Dog”, also known as “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 “T-Dog” , a ERS-11X knockoff made by an unknown company and sold by lots of companies like Tomy or Talentoy
In fiction
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. EMMI (Extraterrestrial Multiform Mobile Identifier), a large doglike robot from Metroid Dread Fix-it, a dog-like robot from the Disney Junior show Handy Manny. Fright Hound from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, a robotic Great Dane resembling Scooby-Doo 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. Rex, from Roborex Robutt, from Isaac Asimov's short story "A Boy's Best Friend." Robo-Dog from PAW Patrol Robo Dog from Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a large robotic dog created by the ACME Corporation Rover, Lunar Jim's Robot dog in the children's animation series of the same name. Rudy from Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!, a ghostly robotic dog resembling Scooby-Doo 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 LOTP Robot Dog V.2 by Halid YILDIRIM (open source)
See also Companion robot Robot locomotion Virtual pet
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