Robot dog
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Robot dog refers to a robot in the shape of a dog, or one which has other canine characteristics (such as a barking dog burglar alarm activated by disturbance of an infra-red beam). Such dogs have appeared often both in fiction, and in the form of toys.
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[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 spinoffs 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 dumb 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
[edit] Science
- Boston Dynamics has created a robotic device names BigDog that is capable of traversing varied terrain and maintaining its balance on ice and snow. It can even recover when violently pushed from the side. BigDog videos
[edit] Toys
- 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)
- 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 it's feelings
