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

• BigDog is a 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 is another Boston Dynamics' robot that is much smaller than the original BigDog project.

Toys

• AIBO (Sony)
• Big Scratch & Little Scratch (Trendmasters)
• Bow-wow
• Genibo, a 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)
• Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings
• Pleo, pet robot with artificial intelligence.
• Poo-Chi (Tiger Electronics)
• Robopet (WowWee)
• Rocket the Wonder Dog (Fisher Price)
• Space Dog (KO CO)
• Tekno (Manley Toys)
• Teksta Popular in the 1990s, this toy was intended to be able to perform card tricks and respond to commands.
• Wrex the robot dog
• I Robot Available in three different types i.e. DuoDuo, Lele, QiQi

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.

• Wappy Dog similar in concept to iDog.
• K-9 Doctor Who Robot Dog also available as a toy.

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.
• Jesta from U.K. was inspired to write an entire song about iDog titled" Me, My music and my idog" which featured on the show.