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.¹

• 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

• ANYmal - inspection robot by Swiss firm ANYbotics²
• DEEP Robotics' X30³⁴⁵
• Ghost Robotics V60,⁶⁷¹ or Quadruped Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (QUGV).⁸
• Cheetah, a 2015 MIT creation⁹
• 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,¹⁰ 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 University¹¹
• Robot Alliance's product which was combat-tested in Donetsk in August 2024¹²
• An anonymous firm's technology demonstration on EP05 of 2024 Britain's Got Talent¹³

• Rise, hexaped
• Rhex, hexaped robot.

• 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 ¹⁴
• 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)¹⁵
• 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 Robotics, available in six different types: Go2, Go1, A1, BenBen, Aliengo and B1¹⁶
• 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.¹⁷

• 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.

• 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

• 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.
• EMMI (Extraterrestrial Multiform Mobile Identifier), a large doglike robot from Metroid Dread
• Fix-it, a dog-like robot from the Disney Junior show Handy Manny.
• Fright Hound from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, a robotic Great Dane resembling Scooby-Doo
• 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.
• Rex, from Roborex
• Robutt, from Isaac Asimov's short story "A Boy's Best Friend."
• Robo-Dog from PAW Patrol
• Robo Dog from Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a large robotic dog created by the ACME Corporation
• Rover, Lunar Jim's Robot dog in the children's animation series of the same name.
• Rudy from Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!, a ghostly robotic dog resembling Scooby-Doo
• 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 (artificial intelligence) wolf-like robot created by World Marshal, an antagonistic private military company featured in the 2013 Konami video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

• Fairfield Industrial Dog Object, FIDO large animated Fairfield Australian dog sculpture

• MC Chris wrote a song named robotdog, describing his adventures with his robotic Aibo that takes over his life.

• Open dog - open source robot by James Bruton¹⁸
• LOTP Robot Dog V.2 by Halid YILDIRIM (open source)¹⁹