List of robotic dogs
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
Toys
Joinmax Digital Robot Dog JM-DOG-001: currently 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 F.I.D.O and Sparky are examples of such robot dogs.
The Bureau of Inverse Technology re-engineer commercially available robotic toy dogs for semi-autonomous deployment, alone and in packs.
In fiction
- AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion) a military scouting robot with dog like characteristics in the 2000 film Red Planet
- Aineko (Robotic Cat), from Charles Stross's Accelerando
- 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, the robotic pet of Alyx had several canine characteristics and was featured in the video game Half-life 2 as well as Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Dogbot, the robot dog from the Ford Fiesta commercials
- Dynomutt, the Blue Falcon's robotic dog from the animated Hanna-Barbera television show.
- GIR, the crazy alien robot who disguised himself as a green dog in the show Invader Zim.
- Goddard, from the Jimmy Neutron Movie and TV series.
- K-9, 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 and K-9.
- Mr. Fuzzy from the Internet webcomic Dandy and Company
- Muffit II, the 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 of the same name
- 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".
- 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, the Sari´s robot dog, like hasbro's toys in Transformers Animated.
- The dog from Super Nintendo game Secret of Evermore takes the form of a robot some parts.
- The Mechanical Hound, a robotic hunter killer who serves the firemen as a blood hound in the book Fahrenheit 451
- 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
In music
- MC Chris wrote a song named robotdog, describing his adventures with his robotic Aibo that takes over his life.
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Aibo · Big Scratch · Bow-wow · Genibo · I-Cybie · iDog · Joinmax Digital Robot Dog · Little Scratch · Mio Pup · Poo-Chi · Robopet · Rocket the Wonder Dog · Space Dog · Tekno · Teksta · Wrex
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