# 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 (QUGV).
* 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 (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
* 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

* Rise, hexaped
* Rhex, hexaped robot.

## Consumer

* AIBO (Sony)
* Big Scratch & Lil' Scratch (Trendmasters)
* Bow-wow
* CHiP (WowWee)
* F.I.D.O.
* Gaylord (Ideal Toy Company), robotic dog controllable by leash, produced in the 1960s
* 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)
* Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings
* 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 robots, available in six different types: Go2, Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1
* Wappy Dog
* Wrex the Dawg, robot dog by WowWee
* 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.
* 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.

## Dupes

* 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

* 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".
* 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 (artifical 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

* 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 (open source)