List of robotic dogs explained

Robotic dogs are quadrupedal robots designed to resemble dogs in appearance and behaviour. As of 2024, various military applications have been seen.^[1]

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

Other products

• ANYmal - inspection robot by Swiss firm ANYbotics^[2]
• Go2 - by Chinese firm Unitree Robotics
• DEEP Robotics' X30^{[3] [4] [5]}
• Ghost Robotics V60,^{[6] [7] [8]} or Quadruped Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (QUGV).^[9]
• Cheetah, a 2015 MIT creation^[10]
• Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
• HyQ, hydraulic quadruped robot able to run up to 2 m/s,^[11] 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^[12]
• Robot Alliance's product which was combat-tested in Donetsk in August 2024^[13]
• An anonymous firm's technology demonstration on EP05 of 2024 Britain's Got Talent^[14]

Hexapedal

• Rise, hexaped
• Rhex, hexaped robot.

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 ^[15]
• 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)^[16]
• 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^[17]
• 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.^[18]

• 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, , and .
• 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 .
• 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 .
• 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 , 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 .
• The main villain of (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^[19]

See also

• Companion robot
• Robot locomotion
• Virtual pet

Notes and References

1. News: Britain's killer robot dogs – and the race to put them on the battlefield . The Telegraph . 19 June 2024 . Cumming . Ed .
2. Web site: ANYmal - Autonomous Legged Robot . 2022-06-23 . ANYbotics . en-US.
3. News: DEEP Robotics X30 / X30 Pro Robot Dog .
4. News: https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2024/07/robot-dog-performs-parkour-and-bipedal-walking/.
5. News: https://www.iotworldtoday.com/robotics/deep-robotics-launches-robot-dog-.
6. News: British Army Tests Robotic Dog for Frontline Commands . 8 September 2022 .
7. News: DE&S Partners with British Army to test Ghost V60 Robotic Dogs . 6 September 2022 .
8. News: Britain's killer robot dogs – and the race to put them on the battlefield . The Telegraph . 19 June 2024 . Cumming . Ed .
9. News: Testing of the Robotic Canine | British Army . 25 July 2022 .
10. News: MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump . 29 May 2015 .
11. Web site: HyQ - IIT's Hydraulic Quadruped Robot - Balancing and First Outdoor Tests. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/AnwetZpRtFE . 2021-12-21 . live. 14 May 2012 . www.youtube.com.
12. Web site: Scansorial and Cursorial Ambulation in a Robust and Agile roBot (SCARAB) Quadrupedal Runner and Climber.
13. News: What We Know About Ukraine's Army of Robot Dogs .
14. News: Britain's Got Talent 2024 Robo Dog Audition Full Show w/Comments Season 17 E05 . 12 May 2024 .
15. Web site: Gaylord the Dog TV Commercial. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/uCQG5Hb6Gew . 2021-12-21 . live. 14 December 2006 . www.youtube.com.
16. Web site: ..:: Zizzle :: . www.zizzle.com . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071015034708/http://www.zizzle.com/products/product-lucky.html . 15 October 2007 . dead.
17. Web site: Unitree Robotics - 宇树科技官网 . 2022-11-25 . www.unitree.com.
18. Web site: Joinmax Digital Robot Dog . Pololu . 2012-09-12.
19. Web site: OpenDog . 2022-06-23 . Hackaday . en-US.