List of robotic dogs



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.
 * Vision 60 - Ghost robotics
 * 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

Commercial

 * ANYmal - inspection robot by ANYbotics
 * Go2 - Unitree Robotics
 * 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
 * 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".
 * 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