robot dog

Robotic dogs are robots designed to resemble dogs in appearance and behavior, usually incorporating canine characteristics such as barking or tail-wagging. In addition, many such "dogs" have appeared as toys and in fiction.

Military and research

* 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.
* Rhex, hexapod robot.
* Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
* Cheetah, DARPA M3 program with a Boston Dynamics hydraulic quadruped and the MIT created electric Cheetah
* 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)
* SCARAB, climbing and walking quadruped robot developed by the Florida A&M University
* Rise, hexapod
* Titan, several versions of this quadruped were created
* MR4, quadruped robot
* Scout I & II
* Silo4
* Cheeter (robot)

Commercial

* ANYmal - inspection robot by anybotics
* Spot - Boston Dynamics

Consumer

* ''AIBO'' (Sony)
* ''Big Scratch & Little Scratch'' (Trendmasters)
* ''Build Your Own Robo Pup''
* ''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'' (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
* '' iDog amp'd'' (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
* ''iDog Clip'' (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
* ''iDog Dance'' (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
* ''iDog soft speaker'' (Hasbro) 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'' (Tiger Electronics)
* '' Robopet'' (WowWee)
* ''Rocket the Wonder Dog'' (Fisher Price)
* ''Smartpet'', robot dog that uses an iPhone to be powered
* ''Space Dog'' (KO CO)
* ''Spotbot'', retro style robotic dog
* ''Tekno the Robotic Puppy'' Appeared on the cover of Time magazine
* ''Teksta'' Popular in the 1990s, this toy was intended to be able to perform card tricks and respond to commands.
* ''Unitree robots, available in five different types: Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1''
* ''Wappy Dog''
* ''Wrex the Dawg'', robot dog
* ''Zoomer & Friends''
* ''Mi CyberDog'' from (Xiaomi)
* ''I Robot'', available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi
*Tombot, a robotic companion animal designed to be a viable option to a real dog for dementia patients

''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.

In fiction

* ''AMEE'' (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion) a military scouting robot with dog like characteristics in the 2000 film '' Red Planet (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'' obotic 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".
* ''Wolf'', from the 2013 Konami video game '' Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance''.
* '' 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.
* ''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.

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

See also

*Robot locomotion

References

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