List of robotic dogs

The robotic dog Zoomer.

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 is a 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 is another Boston Dynamics' robot that is much smaller than the original BigDog project.
• Rhex is a hexapod robot.
• Canid is a quadruped with a flexible spine created by the US Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
• Cheetah DARPA M3 program with a Boston Dynamics hydraulic quadruped and the MIT created electric Cheetah
• HyQ is a hydraulic quadruped robot able to run up to 2 m/s,^[1] developed by the Advanced Robotics Department of the IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
• SCARAB climbing and walking quadruped robot FSU
• Rise hexapod
• Titan several versions of this quadruped were created
• MR4 quadruped robot
• Scout I & II
• Silo4
• Cheeter (robot)
• Tekken1
• pQ3

Consumer

• AIBO (Sony)
• Big Scratch & Little Scratch (Trendmasters)
• Build Your Own Robo Pup
• Bow-wow
• F.I.D.O.
• Genibo, a 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)^[2]
• Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings
• Pleo, pet robot with artificial intelligence.
• Poo-Chi (Tiger Electronics)
• Robopet (WowWee)
• Rocket the Wonder Dog (Fisher Price)
• Smartpet, A robot dog that uses an iPhone to be powered
• Space Dog (KO CO)
• Spotbot, A retro style robotic dog
• Tekno (Manley Toys)
• Teksta Popular in the 1990s, this toy was intended to be able to perform card tricks and respond to commands.
• Wrex the Dawg the robot dog
• Zoomer & Friends
• I Robot - Available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi

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.^[3]

• 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
• Aineko (Robotic Cat), from Charles Stross's Accelerando
• Bhakti, Vanille's pet robot from Final Fantasy XIII
• Bolts, from Alexander Key's 1966 book. A 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, the robot dog from the Ford Fiesta commercials
• Dynomutt, the Blue Falcon's robotic dog from the animated Hanna-Barbera television show.
• GIR, the crazy alien robot who disguised himself as a green dog in the show Invader Zim.
• Goddard, from the Jimmy Neutron Movie and TV series.
• K-9, 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 and K-9.
• Mr. Fuzzy from the Internet webcomic Dandy & Company
• Muffit II, the 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."
• 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 Metal Gear Rising Reveagamce
• 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, the 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.
• 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.

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.

References

1. "Video of experiments on the HyQ robot".
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20071015034708/http://www.zizzle.com/products/product-lucky.html
3. "Joinmax Digital Robot Dog". Pololu. Retrieved 2012-09-12.