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 2m/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-offss 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

References