CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, October 21, 2025

This Chicago bar is home to (probably) the world’s only robot dog house band—here’s how to see them

www.timeout.com/chicago: If you’ve strolled past Logan Arcade sometime in the past week, you’ve probably been swept up by a sea of strobing lights and the sound of Danzig’s unmistakable yawp billowing onto Fullerton Avenue. Peering through the bar’s window, you’ll catch gaggles of smiling pinball wizards head banging and waving their glasses to the hacksaw rhythm of “Skulls” by the Misfits.

1 comment:

Sonja Meyers said...

Personally, I have never heard of the concept of a robot dog house band, and this isn’t what I expected to find in the articles this week (or any week), and I’m not really sure if I’m afraid of or a big fan of the robot dogs. I’m super curious about how much it cost to initially purchase the dogs, especially since they were described as first edition versions of the Chuck E. Cheese beagles. I never imagined that there was much of a market for second-hand animatronics (simply because that sounds absolutely terrifying and filled with ghosts). I’m super curious about what the process of programming them was like, especially to completely change the songs that the dogs are programmed to play. I’ve never paid much attention to animatronics playing songs (again, terrifying), but I’m curious about to what extent the actions of the animatronics correspond to the song. I’m a very big fan of all the dog-related cover band name puns, and I definitely think that it would be cool if there was an expansion to the songs that the dogs played.