List of robotic dogs
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
Other products
- ANYmal - inspection robot by Swiss firm ANYbotics
- DEEP Robotics' X30
- Ghost Robotics V60, or Quadruped Uncrewed Ground Vehicle.
- Cheetah, a 2015 MIT creation
- 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, developed by the Advanced Robotics Department of the IIT
- SCARAB, climbing and walking quadruped robot developed by the Florida A&M University
- Robot Alliance's product which was combat-tested in Donetsk in August 2024
- An anonymous firm's technology demonstration on EP05 of 2024 Britain's Got Talent
Hexapedal
Consumer
AIBO Big Scratch & Lil' Scratch Bow-wowCHiP F.I.D.O.Gaylord, robotic dog controllable by leash, produced in the 1960s Genibo, robotic dog produced by the Korean company Dasatech.I-Cybie iDog and iDog amp'd and iDog Clip and iDog Dance and iDog soft speaker and Lucky the Incredible Wonder Pup Mio Pup An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelingsPoo-Chi and Robopet Rocket the Wonder Dog Smartpet, robot dog that uses an iPhone to be poweredSpace Dog, aka. "Robo" or "Rover the Space Dog"Spotbot, robotic dog from ’s Omnibot familyTekno the Robotic Puppy, also called "Teksta Interactive Robotic Puppy" appeared on the cover of Time magazineUnitree Robotics, available in six different types: Go2, Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1Wappy DogWrex the Dawg, robot dog by WowWee Zoomer & FriendsMi CyberDog from Mi CyberDog II- Jennie, a robotic companion animal designed to be a viable option to a real dog for dementia patients made by Tombot.
Dupes
I Robot, available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi, AIBO knockoffs by AmwellBuild Your Own Robo Pup An ERS-7 AIBO bootlegIn fiction
AMEE a military scouting robot with dog like characteristics in the 2000 film Red PlanetA.R.F, a robotic dog from Puppy Dog PalsA.X.L., a robotic dog from the film of the same name.Bhakti, Vanille's pet robot from Final Fantasy XIIIBolts, 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. in the eponymous film from 1979.Cyber Mastiffs, used by the Adeptus Aribites in Warhammer 40,000Dog, 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 commercialsDynomutt, 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, a large doglike robot from Metroid DreadFix-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-DooGIR, 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 with a human voice.Rat Thing, from Neal Stephenson's Snow CrashRIC, Power Rangers sidekick / weapon in Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta.Rex, from RoborexRobutt, 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 CorporationRover, 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-DooRunner, 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 seriesRusty, 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 GibsonSparkplug, 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 YattermanFENRIS Mechs from Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, also a DLC dog companion in ME3nRex from Fallout: New Vegas, a "cyberhound" that can be recruited as a companion from The King in FreesideK-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 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 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