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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
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Quadruped
[edit]Boston Dynamics
[edit]- 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
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- Unitree B1, industrial quadruped robot with modified versions developed for firefighting applications.[3][4]
- Unitree B2, industrial quadruped robot designed for industrial inspection applications.[5][6]
- 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.[7]
- Unitree As2-W, wheel-legged quadruped robot designed for industrial and outdoor applications.[8]
ANYbotics
[edit]DEEP Robotics
[edit]Ghost Robotics
[edit]- V60,[13][14][1] or Quadruped Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (QUGV).[15]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[edit]U.S. Army Research Laboratory / University of Pennsylvania
[edit]- Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
[edit]- HyQ, hydraulic quadruped robot able to run up to 2 m/s,[17] developed by the Advanced Robotics Department of the IIT (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia).
Florida A&M University
[edit]- SCARAB, climbing and walking quadruped robot developed by the Florida A&M University.[18]
Robot Alliance
[edit]Unidentified company
[edit]- Anonymous firm's technology demonstration on EP05 of 2024 Britain's Got Talent.[20]
Hexapedal
[edit]Consumer
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- AIBO (Sony)
- Big Scratch & Lil' Scratch (Trendmasters)
- Bow-wow[citation needed]
- CHiP (WowWee)
- F.I.D.O.
- Gaylord (Ideal Toy Company), robotic dog controllable by leash, produced in the 1960s [21]
- 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)[22]
- Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings[citation needed]
- 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[23]
- Wappy Dog
- Wrex the Dawg, robot dog by WowWee [citation needed]
- 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.[24]
- 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. [citation needed]
Dupes
[edit]- 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
In fiction
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- 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-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.
- 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
[edit]- Fairfield Industrial Dog Object, FIDO large animated Fairfield Australian dog sculpture
In music
[edit]- MC Chris wrote a song named robotdog, describing his adventures with his robotic Aibo that takes over his life.
Open source
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Cumming, Ed (19 June 2024). "Britain's killer robot dogs – and the race to put them on the battlefield". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Hambling, David. "U.S. Marines Test Robot Dog Armed With A Rocket Launcher". Forbes. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ "Special Unitree B1 robot dog can fight fire". heise online. 2025-05-06. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ Ridden, Paul (2025-05-05). "Fire-quenching modular robodog pads into danger zones". New Atlas. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ "B2 Overview | Unitree B2". www.docs.quadruped.de. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ "The B2 industrial inspection robot dog has been improved". 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ Baterna, Quina (2025-06-19). "This Emergency Rescue Robot Is A Real Parkour Master". SlashGear. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ "Unitree As2-W - Impressive All-Terrain Robot". www.i-programmer.info. Retrieved 2026-07-30.
- ↑ "ANYmal - Autonomous Legged Robot". ANYbotics. Retrieved 2022-06-23.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "DEEP Robotics X30 / X30 Pro Robot Dog".
- ↑ "Robot Dog Performs "Parkour" and "Bipedal Walking" | UST". 15 July 2024.
- ↑ "Deep Robotics Launches Robot Dog".
- ↑ "British Army Tests Robotic Dog for Frontline Commands". 8 September 2022.
- ↑ "DE&S Partners with British Army to test Ghost V60 Robotic Dogs". 6 September 2022.
- ↑ "Testing of the Robotic Canine | British Army". 25 July 2022.
- ↑ "MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump". 29 May 2015.
- ↑ "HyQ - IIT's Hydraulic Quadruped Robot - Balancing and First Outdoor Tests". 14 May 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "Scansorial and Cursorial Ambulation in a Robust and Agile roBot (SCARAB) Quadrupedal Runner and Climber".
- ↑ "What We Know About Ukraine's Army of Robot Dogs".
- ↑ "Britain's Got Talent 2024 Robo Dog Audition Full Show w/Comments Season 17 E05". 12 May 2024.
- ↑ "Gaylord the Dog TV Commercial". 14 December 2006. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "..:: Zizzle ::". www.zizzle.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ↑ "Unitree Robotics - 宇树科技官网". www.unitree.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ "Joinmax Digital Robot Dog". Pololu. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
- ↑ "OpenDog". Hackaday. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ↑ Halid, YILDIRIM. "LOTP Robot Dog V.2".