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== [[Card Games]] ==
* ''Star [[Munchkin (Tabletop Game)|Munchkin]]'' has a card "Dogbot" which is probably an [[Expy]] of [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'s K9.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Robbie built one of these in an an episode of ''[[Lazy Town]]''. The dog attacks when the word 'trouble' is uttered. There's even a song about him.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' and later ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' have K-9.
** Averted in a Series 6 episode when [[The Nth Doctor|The Eleventh Doctor]] advises Craig to avoid stepping on Yappy, the Robot Dog, then remarks that it wasn't as much fun as he remembers.
* Muffy II the robot Daggit in the 1970s ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]''.
* Murphy in ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]''.
* R.I.C. 2.0 (Robotic Interactive Canine) from ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'', he can transform into a [[BFG]] for the rangers, or a [[Powered Armor]] for the Red Ranger. Or a scooter to ride on when the bumbling assistant scientist pretended to be a Ranger. He really becomes a [[Do-Anything Robot]], with a lot of random things added to him just because they could when said assistant and the tech-savvy Ranger, Bridge, upgraded him in their spare time.
* A few Zords have been giant robot ''wolves'', including the Blue Ninjazord from ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', the [[Power Rangers Wild Force|Wolf Wildzord]], the [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|Wolf Galactabeast]] who turned from a giant wolf into a giant robot wolf, the [[Power Rangers Jungle Fury|Wolf Animal Spirit]] (a giant robotic-looking wolf... ''made out of pure ki.'') Yeah, Power Rangers a big on giant robot wolves.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': when the gang move into the local big box store because they think [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem:Year 2000 problem|Y2K]] destroyed all civilization, [[The Ditz|Randy]] took up residence in the toy department and made friends with a toy robot dog.
* The eponymous hero of ''[[Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack]]'' is one.
 
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* A petbot in the shape of a dog in the ''[[Paranoia]]'' adventure ''Send in the Clones''.
** A few missions also include doberbots. Naturally, a doberbot's primary combat tactic is [[Attack! Attack! Attack!|"attack someone until they die, attack someone else until they die, attack someone ''else'' until they die..."]]
 
== Toys ==
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* Goddard from ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]''.
* A robotic dog was featured as a rival for [[Scooby Doo]] in ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]''.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' had a robotic dog show up in the theme song. [[Opening Shout -Out|They actually build it]] in "Canderemy".
* Robo-Puppy from ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', which is a direct parody of Sony's AIBO mentioned below. Bender actually [[Kick the Dog|kicks the Robo-dog]]!
{{quote| '''Robo-Puppy:''' Robo-Puppy commencing two hour yipping session: YIP! YIP! YIP! YIP! YIP! YIP!}}
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Sony's [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO |AIBO series of robots]] were literal robot dogs, or at least as close as was possible within the limits of artificial intelligence.
* Hasbro's Furreal Friends included Biscuit, a robot dog for kids.
* Poo-Chi, a robot dog for kids (followed by Meow-Chi, Chirpie-Chi [bird] and Dino-Chi), which came in various colors. Among the variants were a poodle, a bulldog and three dalmatians (actually Domino, Little Dipper and Oddball, to promote ''[[One Hundred and One101 Dalmatians (Disney)|102 Dalmatians]]''. The toys were made from 2000 to 2002. One of the complaints about them was that ''they wouldn't shut up!''
 
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