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.

The robotic dog Zoomer

Military and research

  • 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.
  • Rhex, hexapod robot.
  • Canid, quadruped with a flexible spine created by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and UPenn.
  • Vision 60 - Ghost robotics
  • Cheetah, DARPA M3 program with a Boston Dynamics hydraulic quadruped and the MIT created electric Cheetah
  • HyQ, hydraulic quadruped robot able to run up to 2 m/s,[1] 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[2]
  • Rise, hexapod
  • Titan, several versions of this quadruped were created
  • MR4, quadruped robot
  • Scout I & II
  • Silo4
  • Cheeter (robot)

Commercial

Consumer

Sony's AIBO

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.[7]

  • 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.

In fiction

K9 (Dr Who)

In art

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[8]

See also

References

  1. "HyQ - IIT's Hydraulic Quadruped Robot - Balancing and First Outdoor Tests". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 via www.youtube.com.
  2. "Scansorial and Cursorial Ambulation in a Robust and Agile roBot (SCARAB) Quadrupedal Runner and Climber".
  3. "ANYmal - Autonomous Legged Robot". ANYbotics. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  4. "Gaylord the Dog TV Commercial". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 via www.youtube.com.
  5. "..:: Zizzle ::". www.zizzle.com. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  6. "Unitree Robotics - 宇树科技官网". www.unitree.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  7. "Joinmax Digital Robot Dog". Pololu. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  8. "OpenDog". Hackaday. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
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