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[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.
- Rhex, hexapod robot.
- Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
- Vision 60 - Ghost robotics
- Cheetah, DARPA M3 program with a Boston Dynamics hydraulic quadruped and the MIT created electric Cheetah
- HyQ, 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 developed by the Florida A&M University[2]
- Rise, hexapod
Commercial[edit]
- ANYmal - inspection robot by ANYbotics[3]
- Spot, - Boston Dynamics
Consumer[edit]
- AIBO (Sony)
- Big Scratch & Little Scratch (Trendmasters)
- Build Your Own Robo Pup
- Bow-wow[citation needed]
- CHiP (WowWee)
- F.I.D.O.
- Gaylord (Ideal Toy Company), robotic dog controllable by leash, produced in the 1960s [4]
- 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)[5]
- Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings[citation needed]
- 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)[citation needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
- Unitree robots, available in five different types: Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1[6]
- Wappy Dog
- Wrex the Dawg, robot dog[citation needed]
- Zoomer & Friends
- Mi CyberDog from (Xiaomi)
- I Robot, available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi[citation needed]
- 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.[7]
- 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]
In fiction[edit]
- 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.
- 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 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
- 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.
- 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.
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]
- Open dog - open source robot by James Bruton[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "HyQ - IIT's Hydraulic Quadruped Robot - Balancing and First Outdoor Tests". 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".
- ^ "ANYmal - Autonomous Legged Robot". ANYbotics. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ^ "Gaylord the Dog TV Commercial". 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.