Katsuhiro Otomo has design the mechanical dog featuring in this first UBE-DOG TV commercial for the Ube industries company (宇部興産企業) that celebrate their 100th anniversary this year. Otomo's designs of the dog are collected in the page152 of KABA 2.
More Ube-dog videos were done in the upcoming years. Check them out in the official site. http://www.ube-ind.co.jp/japanese/ad/tvcm.htm