List of robotic dogs
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Toys
- PLEO [1] Pet robot with artificial intelligence.
- Teksta Popular in the 1990s, this toy was intended to be able to perform card tricks and respond to commands.
- Aibo (Sony)
- 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.
- Poo-Chi (Tiger Electronics)
- Bow-wow
- I-Cybie (Silverlit Electronics)
- iDog (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
- Hasbro Oye I-Dog
- Rocket (Fisher Price)
- Tekno (Manley Toys)
- Robopet (WowWee)
- The Bureau of Inverse Technology re-engineer commercially available robotic toy dogs for semi-autonomous deployment, alone and in packs.
- Mio Pup (Tiger Electronics) An "emoto-tronic" robot pet with over 100 "eye-cons" to show its feelings
- iDog amp'd (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
- iDog soft speaker (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
- iDog Dance (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
- iDog Clip (Hasbro) and (Tiger Electronics)
[edit] In fiction
- 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.
- 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.
- Rover, Lunar Jim's Robot dog in the children's animation series of the same name.
- Toby, the robot dog who was the companion of Halo Jones in the classic comic story The Ballad of Halo Jones.
- C.H.O.M.P.S.(Canine Home Protection System) played by Benji in the eponymous film from 1979, also starring Wesley Eure and Valerie Bertinelli
- Runner, a rather large robot in the shape of a dog, pet and loyal friend of Grubb, from the PC RPG Septerra Core.
- RIC [Robotic Interactive Canine]is the dog sidekick and doubles as a weapon for the Power Rangers is in Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta.
- Dogbot, the robot dog from the Ford Fiesta commercials
- Mr. Fuzzy from the Internet webcomic Dandy and Company
- Rush and Treble from the megaman classic series
- 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
- The dog from Super Nintendo game Secret of Evermore takes the form of a robot some parts.
- "The Mechanical Hound", a robotic hunter killer in the book Fahrenheit 451
- "AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion)" a military scouting robot with dog like characteristics in the 2000 film Red Planet
- The Cyber Mastiffs that the Adeptus Aribites use in Warhammer 40,000
- Gir, the crazy alien robot who diguised himself as a green dog in the show Invader Zim.
- peach from powerpuff girls X is a robot dog
- Robutt, from Isaac Asimov's short story of the same name
- Rat Thing, from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
- Dynomutt, the Blue Falcon's robotic dog from the animated Hanna-Barbera television show.
- Slamhounds, robotic assassins in the novel Count Zero by William Gibson
