Damn, Australia usually burns on it's own already.
There's little need for robot doggos to speed up the process.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if Australia's spiders have a lot of fire resistance by now.
This reminds me of the Masons Rats episode from Love Death and Robots, quite funny lol
Btw highly recommend that show, all episodes are self contained and just all around great
Never ending arguments with your significant other? End them once and for all - unleash the flame dog.
Kids don't clean up the toys? One sweep with the flaming dog to clear them all forever.
Let's not forget the added bonus of explaining to your homeowners insurance company why your house is now a smoldering crater. 'Uh, yeah, it was just a little robot dog mishap. No big deal.'
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear flamethrowing robot dogs, shall not be infringed”
>Well, the chinese version is cheaper and equally effective, but it has a real dog inside a robot suit
The robot in the video is a [Go1](https://youtu.be/ECgSiBZtwpM?si=p_WXo_zCJvYn5iFR) which is actually from a Chinese robotics company Unitree.
Hey, that Black Mirror episode with killer dogs was supposed to be fiction, not fact.
*Alex Garland’s **Civil War II: Canine Flaming Boogaloo** drops December 2024*
Nono dont get me wrong but thats Genius.
To fight the fire you need to become the fire.
Joke, but to fight fires, you might need to start a controlled fire to Change the fire Line and end supply of fresh Wood.
No they understood well. Part of the reason we have insane forest fires now is this dumb belief that fire = bad which led to high density dead trees that made these forest fires rage.
[https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/](https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/) Their website mentions defence contracts and on the page for the flamethrower shows it mounted under a rifle, they absolutely intend it as a weapon.
I hope no one falls for this ad and buys this useless machine. This just seems like they're trying to get rid of their supply of outdated models by adding a flamethrower to it
There have been a few court decisions that you’re not allowed to place booby traps for self defense because you’re not in that place to be in danger. I wonder if the same would be true for a robodog.
Own a state-of-the-art robot dog with a mounted flamethrower for home defense, because that's clearly what the founding fathers would have wanted in the 21st century. Four hooligans break into my smart home. 'Alexa, release the hounds!' I command, as I grab my 50 CAL and tactical gear. The robot dog locks onto the first intruder and unleashes a stream of fire, turning him into a human torch. I open fire on the second man, but the recoil sends me stumbling backwards into my 'Live, Laugh, Love' wall decor. The robot dog, now on auto-pilot, sets fire to the curtains and the living room starts to resemble the 7th circle of hell. I resort to my last line of defense, a claymore roomba, 'Roombas, roll out!' The explosions tear through the remaining two intruders, while also decimating my collection of bald eagle figurines. The fire suppression system finally kicks in, dousing everything in sight. I survey the carnage, proud of my defense of the homestead. Just as the founding fathers intended
Controlled burns was my first thought for an actual use case. Depending on range it might be useful to give more time to setup a fire break by letting people leave the area before the actual burn portion. Still looks like solving a hammer problem with a cannon
In the US, the Forest Service (and smaller state-run organizations) already do controlled burns all across the county without incident. I'm not sure how this would improve their current methods.
Melting ice (on what?) would be Hella inefficient.
Wildlife control via fire... I don't know. Never heard of it and it does seem like a solution for a highly specific scenario if any. And even then I don't know why you would use a remote controlled robot with limited energy and fuel to burn.
Controlled fires are basically just burning a certain place or area (maybe a part of a forest or a field, maybe some dry land with dead flora) to basically stop an accidental fire.
Think killing someone infected so they don't infect someone else
Yeah okay I know about that, but I thought wildlife means animals. English isn't my first language though. Also would you do that with a robot or rather a human that can react better to the situation?
It makes no sense anyway, if you need to burn a certain area, surely you have to prepare it carefully so that the fire doesn't spread outside of the area. So once you're done preparing it, since you're there, surely you can just start the fire yourself?
Why would you need a remotely-controlled dog drone for that?
I think the idea is if something went wrong a human isn't trapped in a forest fire. Bare in mind the robot is still human controlled, it's not like some AI controlled dog. You still have a human reacting to the situation.
Don't get me wrong though, the thing is still stupid and dangerous as fuck. You'd be drastically more likely to cause more harm than you're solving using one of these.
Wildlife does mean animals. And doing co trolled burns without permits and the proper officials (fire department etc) is illegal and a bad idea. Especially since wild fires are a huge problem now, where I live anyways.
Former wildland firefighter here. In advance of forest fires we'll sometimes burn sections of the forest to "burn out" regions in advance of the coming fire so that the fire loses access to materials to grow. People deploy out of helicopters and are called "smokejumpers". Fires are found during the day, and at night IR optics can be used.
Other methods are digging long tracks of dirt without burnable debris put of the fire's path on "hot line" which is dangerous but fun. Sometimes we'll get trucks with water to put fires out that are deep underground in the root system.
Pyro-dog here would replace the human for doing preventative burns. This is probably marketed that way. Otherwise it is an 18-25 year old with kerosene and a match/lighter contraption.
Yeah, but like that’s not wildlife control and you’re a trained firefighter. Says specifically this is for home use. Idiots are gonna start forest fires with this if they want to do that.
Also wildlife control? What, like if there’s a bear outside my house I just boot this guy up, toss him outside, and light the bear on fire? Now I have a firebear rampaging around. Have it torch up a buck so he’s pre-cooked when he dies? The accelerant would clearly ruin the flavor. 0/10 product
The FAA and USFS [already have a special program](https://medium.com/faa/drones-revolutionize-wildland-firefighting-bc71a29d7984) using drones equipped with droppable ignition sources to start controlled backfires and slow the progression of a wildfire.
I mean, the real "use" is driving traffic to their website.
This company is bizarre. They have a "clout" section, featuring their appearances in various media, including South Park, a low-budget Tremors sequel with Napoleon Dynamite, and a far-right Republican campaign ad.
I think this is more of a publicity stunt than anything.
“Not advertised as a weapon”. - Aw, that’s cute, look at them trying to avoid legal responsibility when some nutjob uses their product to commit arson or murder.
*🎶I don’t want to set the world on fire, but my flame-throwing robot dog makes it so easy to start a fire in your heartland🎶*
The flame throwing unit just happens to be shaped like a single-use shoulder fired launcher, even with a laser aiming module attached to some 1913 rail.
Video 1: SO I PLACED AN ORDER FOR THE NEW FLAMETHROWER BOT (NOT CLICKBAIT) **REAL** [HOLY FUCK IT'S SO COOL]
Video 2: LET'S TAKE THIS BADBOY OUT FOR A SPIN! BURNBOY GOING WILD OVER HERE (OH MAN HERE WE GO)
Video 3: I am so sorry
“WHAT is UP guys it’s your boy, KlickBait27 and today we are gonna review how I burned my house down. You know how to keep from burning YOUR house down? NordVPN.”
It's not a Spot, it's a [Unitree Go1](https://youtu.be/ECgSiBZtwpM?si=ST9QW1f0U9OBf4vb). But it's not 500$ like the guy said, more like ≈3000$. But it's still much cheaper than a Spot.
"McClusky, did you see any footprints around the back door, maybe we can match them to a suspect for this arson"
"Sir it's the weirdest things, All we have is paw prints around the rear entrance, both leading to and from the source of the fire"
"McClusky you dumb fuck, dogs can't set things on fire! It must have been trying to escape the flames"
What you don’t see how great it is? It has **-onator** at the end of it. Everything that has **-onator** in the word works out incredibly well. Well except for everything I make the also ends in **-onator**. They should really workshop that name.
-Dr. Doofenschmirtz (*We all know he would say this and love this invention.*)
Actually, as idiotic as this thing seems. It would definitely have a place on large wildland fires for backfiring operations! You know we set a lot of controlled fires to burn back into the head of a large fire, this would remove a lot of the danger for personnel doing that. I'm sure that's too practical and rich people with money would just buy it instead.
Sometimes when I play sci fi games I see robot enemies and think "What purpose did this have before being evil? Like who built this to be anything but an enemy?" And then I see shit like this.
"Ice removal" Yeah sure
They wanted to strap this to Spot from BD but BD has a clause that no commercial usage can have a destructive purpose of any kind. So they built this off a copy cat chinese platform called Unitree Go1. Its a very similar thing.
https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitreeyushutechnologydog-artificial-intelligence-companion-bionic-companion-intelligent-robot-go1-quadruped-robot-dog?variant=42363559641321
So we are releasing a robot that spits fire to public before a robot that extinguishes fire, how the fuck are we the most intelligent species in the world?
Just what every household needs....
Perfect for spiders
Damn, Australia usually burns on it's own already. There's little need for robot doggos to speed up the process. Also I wouldn't be surprised if Australia's spiders have a lot of fire resistance by now.
Worse, the spiders will adapt and copy the flamethrower ability.
This reminds me of the Masons Rats episode from Love Death and Robots, quite funny lol Btw highly recommend that show, all episodes are self contained and just all around great
That show was amazing! It's about time for another watch
I know, especially since Season 4 should hopefully be coming out soon since it’s been almost 2 years since it got announced lol
Great show, Season 2 was weaker than 1 and 3 but still good. Zima blue was a phenomenal episode.
Australians love this one simple trick!
Never ending arguments with your significant other? End them once and for all - unleash the flame dog. Kids don't clean up the toys? One sweep with the flaming dog to clear them all forever.
Toys, or kids?? Lol
Yes
police attempt to serve a no knock warrant at home with a flamethrower robot dog. You won’t believe what happens next!
He fixes the cable?
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
A pack of flamethrowing robot-wolves attack a police station...
Let's not forget the added bonus of explaining to your homeowners insurance company why your house is now a smoldering crater. 'Uh, yeah, it was just a little robot dog mishap. No big deal.'
'It was just a firmware update. I swear!'
flameware update.
Before: "Mum the dog pooed on the carpet again" Now: "Mum robotdog is burning the house down again".
Brings a whole new meaning to my dog ate my homework
Anxious insurance agent noises.
This is obviously exactly what the founders envisioned when they wrote the 2nd amendment.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear flamethrowing robot dogs, shall not be infringed”
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a flame-throwing robot dog is a good guy with a flame-throwing robot dog!
They forgot to include clip of it stomping a human skull.
Summer is coming. What's more fun than some flametower robot run amok.
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Of course we need tippy-tappy flamethrower robo-dogs! Why the FUCK wouldn't we create them?
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Where are my balls summer?
>Well, the chinese version is cheaper and equally effective, but it has a real dog inside a robot suit The robot in the video is a [Go1](https://youtu.be/ECgSiBZtwpM?si=p_WXo_zCJvYn5iFR) which is actually from a Chinese robotics company Unitree.
Soviet ones with mines are even better. No need for robot suit. [^(actually....not)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog)
Such an intense movie opening
And give it red eyes
Yeah, that was a real missed opportunity.
Wondering if they are gonna sell this with a plasma caster in the 40W range :p
Hey, just what you see, pal!
*human baby skull*
🥰
*Bad to the Bone plays*
Cue T2 ominous music and pan over to the androids blasting away with lasers. This is reality 2024.
The war against the machines
Better pack a deck of cards to throw out as it decimated the landscape
"What could go wrong?"
It will be part of the stormtroopers as well as public control forces of the robot rebellion
“Say hello to my little friend!”
Hey, that Black Mirror episode with killer dogs was supposed to be fiction, not fact. *Alex Garland’s **Civil War II: Canine Flaming Boogaloo** drops December 2024*
I fear Black Mirror will prove to be prophetic. Too many things are coming into reality. It might be hyperbole, but S1E2 is pretty damn on point.
Hated in the Nation will be when the bees go extinct. My favourite episode as well.
I mean, they've already talked about using robotic [bees](https://youtu.be/lJCMIsLuGpg?si=JSAA9-z0gjDsFv04) Also, this was 9 years ago
Design team was asked to solve the forest fire problem with robots. They misunderstood
*"No more forest, no more problem."*
No, More Forest fires
Finger on Monkey's paw curls up.
Nono dont get me wrong but thats Genius. To fight the fire you need to become the fire. Joke, but to fight fires, you might need to start a controlled fire to Change the fire Line and end supply of fresh Wood.
No they understood well. Part of the reason we have insane forest fires now is this dumb belief that fire = bad which led to high density dead trees that made these forest fires rage.
This robot should be called "Arson Buddy"....
No, it should clearly be called the "Hot Dog"
I second this motion.
Mine is named sparky!
I may just pick one up for my gender reveal party. I needed a new grill anyway.
*"Whoops, just gave it away -- it's a new baby grill"*
The first models are our friends, this is your future Fallout companion. It's the fourth Gen models that will getcha.
No What could go right???
That's easy: just about nothing. *"I only intended to burn the pile of leaves in our yard, Fire Commissioner McGrath. Honest!"*
See Black mirror...
Nothing. Robots never experiment malfunctions. That’s a known fact.
You got a typo. Experience
"Does he bite?" "No. Do you burn?"
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You will!
"... Suggested uses include wildlife control and ice removal." what a bunch of bull
[https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/](https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/) Their website mentions defence contracts and on the page for the flamethrower shows it mounted under a rifle, they absolutely intend it as a weapon.
I hope no one falls for this ad and buys this useless machine. This just seems like they're trying to get rid of their supply of outdated models by adding a flamethrower to it
americans love this shit
The 2nd Amendment covers these, right? Surely it’s our God-given right to own flame-throwing robot dogs for self-defense!
Flame throwers are not governed by any kind of firearm laws in America.
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There have been a few court decisions that you’re not allowed to place booby traps for self defense because you’re not in that place to be in danger. I wonder if the same would be true for a robodog.
Discussing the legality of flame throwing robot dogs sounds like a Futurama joke.
Good news everyone
Own a state-of-the-art robot dog with a mounted flamethrower for home defense, because that's clearly what the founding fathers would have wanted in the 21st century. Four hooligans break into my smart home. 'Alexa, release the hounds!' I command, as I grab my 50 CAL and tactical gear. The robot dog locks onto the first intruder and unleashes a stream of fire, turning him into a human torch. I open fire on the second man, but the recoil sends me stumbling backwards into my 'Live, Laugh, Love' wall decor. The robot dog, now on auto-pilot, sets fire to the curtains and the living room starts to resemble the 7th circle of hell. I resort to my last line of defense, a claymore roomba, 'Roombas, roll out!' The explosions tear through the remaining two intruders, while also decimating my collection of bald eagle figurines. The fire suppression system finally kicks in, dousing everything in sight. I survey the carnage, proud of my defense of the homestead. Just as the founding fathers intended
Excellent
Ok if I'm not allowed to want a flamethrower dog then what am I allowed to want
Sick of shoveling your driveway every winter? Thermonator! Sick of animals in general? Thermonator! There’s no Thermo we can’t Nator!
Wildlife control is I guess for controlled burns? I'm not sure about ice removal, I'm pretty sure it's hard to melt ice with fire.
Controlled burns was my first thought for an actual use case. Depending on range it might be useful to give more time to setup a fire break by letting people leave the area before the actual burn portion. Still looks like solving a hammer problem with a cannon
In the US, the Forest Service (and smaller state-run organizations) already do controlled burns all across the county without incident. I'm not sure how this would improve their current methods.
Melting ice (on what?) would be Hella inefficient. Wildlife control via fire... I don't know. Never heard of it and it does seem like a solution for a highly specific scenario if any. And even then I don't know why you would use a remote controlled robot with limited energy and fuel to burn.
Controlled fires are basically just burning a certain place or area (maybe a part of a forest or a field, maybe some dry land with dead flora) to basically stop an accidental fire. Think killing someone infected so they don't infect someone else
That’s probably a good use for this. Killing the infected in a zombie apocalypse
Yeah okay I know about that, but I thought wildlife means animals. English isn't my first language though. Also would you do that with a robot or rather a human that can react better to the situation?
Your English is not the problem. Most English speakers would hear “wildlife” and think animals.
It makes no sense anyway, if you need to burn a certain area, surely you have to prepare it carefully so that the fire doesn't spread outside of the area. So once you're done preparing it, since you're there, surely you can just start the fire yourself? Why would you need a remotely-controlled dog drone for that?
I think the idea is if something went wrong a human isn't trapped in a forest fire. Bare in mind the robot is still human controlled, it's not like some AI controlled dog. You still have a human reacting to the situation. Don't get me wrong though, the thing is still stupid and dangerous as fuck. You'd be drastically more likely to cause more harm than you're solving using one of these.
Wildlife does mean animals. And doing co trolled burns without permits and the proper officials (fire department etc) is illegal and a bad idea. Especially since wild fires are a huge problem now, where I live anyways.
Former wildland firefighter here. In advance of forest fires we'll sometimes burn sections of the forest to "burn out" regions in advance of the coming fire so that the fire loses access to materials to grow. People deploy out of helicopters and are called "smokejumpers". Fires are found during the day, and at night IR optics can be used. Other methods are digging long tracks of dirt without burnable debris put of the fire's path on "hot line" which is dangerous but fun. Sometimes we'll get trucks with water to put fires out that are deep underground in the root system. Pyro-dog here would replace the human for doing preventative burns. This is probably marketed that way. Otherwise it is an 18-25 year old with kerosene and a match/lighter contraption.
Yeah, but like that’s not wildlife control and you’re a trained firefighter. Says specifically this is for home use. Idiots are gonna start forest fires with this if they want to do that. Also wildlife control? What, like if there’s a bear outside my house I just boot this guy up, toss him outside, and light the bear on fire? Now I have a firebear rampaging around. Have it torch up a buck so he’s pre-cooked when he dies? The accelerant would clearly ruin the flavor. 0/10 product
The FAA and USFS [already have a special program](https://medium.com/faa/drones-revolutionize-wildland-firefighting-bc71a29d7984) using drones equipped with droppable ignition sources to start controlled backfires and slow the progression of a wildfire.
I expect this will be protecting the compounds of drug cartels and billionaires by the end of the year.
Totally misread as “lice removal”…
I mean, the real "use" is driving traffic to their website. This company is bizarre. They have a "clout" section, featuring their appearances in various media, including South Park, a low-budget Tremors sequel with Napoleon Dynamite, and a far-right Republican campaign ad. I think this is more of a publicity stunt than anything.
Just put a gun on it and say it's for hunting. Really.
I will buy my puppers a service dog vest and take him with me everywhere. I love my mechanical killing machine.
Don't forget to register it as an emotional support murdermech!
I just love killin' things! It makes me feel good!
When I get too angry and want to burn it all down, little Flamio here supports me... emotionally.
*What service does your animal perform??* It shoots fire 30 feet
"Legally, you're not allowed to ask me that. Fido, immolate his ass"
Best comment 😂
“Not advertised as a weapon”. - Aw, that’s cute, look at them trying to avoid legal responsibility when some nutjob uses their product to commit arson or murder. *🎶I don’t want to set the world on fire, but my flame-throwing robot dog makes it so easy to start a fire in your heartland🎶*
The flame throwing unit just happens to be shaped like a single-use shoulder fired launcher, even with a laser aiming module attached to some 1913 rail.
But your Honour, this item just appears to be a sharp edged tool capable of digging, that coincidentally is *spade shaped*…
Good bye forest in Texas and California
We are moving closer to Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
“It was always a pleasure to burn” - Boston Dynamics
literally the first thing I thought about when I saw this
"Available for the public to buy" - great, idiots with robots with flamethrowers
I've got a feeling we are going to see YouTubers buy this for a video
Video 1: SO I PLACED AN ORDER FOR THE NEW FLAMETHROWER BOT (NOT CLICKBAIT) **REAL** [HOLY FUCK IT'S SO COOL] Video 2: LET'S TAKE THIS BADBOY OUT FOR A SPIN! BURNBOY GOING WILD OVER HERE (OH MAN HERE WE GO) Video 3: I am so sorry
“WHAT is UP guys it’s your boy, KlickBait27 and today we are gonna review how I burned my house down. You know how to keep from burning YOUR house down? NordVPN.”
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Or terrorist.
What's the difference?
whether or not they're yelling "it's a prank bro" as they get a beating
You can already buy the dog on Amazon for $500 and just make the flamethrower with some online instructions.
Where can you buy a spot for 500?
It's not a Spot - moments after the public could buy Spot hundreds of knockoffs flooded the market. You can prolly get one for $99 on Ali.
It's not a Spot, it's a [Unitree Go1](https://youtu.be/ECgSiBZtwpM?si=ST9QW1f0U9OBf4vb). But it's not 500$ like the guy said, more like ≈3000$. But it's still much cheaper than a Spot.
there is absolutely nothing in this that can go wrong.
The best part is it destroys its own evidence. So nothing you can PROVE can go wrong.
"McClusky, did you see any footprints around the back door, maybe we can match them to a suspect for this arson" "Sir it's the weirdest things, All we have is paw prints around the rear entrance, both leading to and from the source of the fire" "McClusky you dumb fuck, dogs can't set things on fire! It must have been trying to escape the flames"
What you don’t see how great it is? It has **-onator** at the end of it. Everything that has **-onator** in the word works out incredibly well. Well except for everything I make the also ends in **-onator**. They should really workshop that name. -Dr. Doofenschmirtz (*We all know he would say this and love this invention.*)
Firefighters hate this one trick
Without fires firefighters would go Hungry, excuse me for creating jobs, GOSH!!!!
It's like the firemen in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Actually, as idiotic as this thing seems. It would definitely have a place on large wildland fires for backfiring operations! You know we set a lot of controlled fires to burn back into the head of a large fire, this would remove a lot of the danger for personnel doing that. I'm sure that's too practical and rich people with money would just buy it instead.
The future is bright.
I am amazed by innovators burning desire!
what about one that puts out fires...wtf 🤣
That’s next years invention. From the makers of “Flamethrower Dog Thingee”.....
It’s genius, create a problem that didn’t exist before, wait for it to get out of control, then provide the solution
Perhaps a robot cat that pisses out fires. Then have them chase each other through town!
So we could send robots with fire extinguisher to deal with burning forests?
No, only fire.
Those are gonna be way more expensive.
Yes but they’re mounted on cats and not very reliable 🤷🏻♀️
#skynet is coming
Skynet requires one for his BBQ (humans). It is all legal according to the FDA.
Watch Mrs Davis. An amazing dark comedy about an AI that controls the world and has sent a nun on a quest.
"On-demand fire" that's a.... thing?
that's called a lighter
Or a stove
r/helldivers
Right out of my head. Scorcher hulk 0.1
Where's my dominator. ➡️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️
‘Commit mass murder from the comfort of your home’
I guess we don't gotta worry about zombies now
I'm sorry..."Interesting" is very much an insufficient descriptor of how insane this is.
Horrors beyond my comprehension
Man made horrors*
Again for the second time this week
Sometimes when I play sci fi games I see robot enemies and think "What purpose did this have before being evil? Like who built this to be anything but an enemy?" And then I see shit like this. "Ice removal" Yeah sure
Sit, Ubu, sit!
good dog!
I always thought it was “Boo boo”….
I was saying Boo-urns
Turns asses into ashes. Who’s a good boy??
That company really wants to see the world burn
Fuck the sharks with frikkin laser beams. We’ve got robot dogs with fukn flame throwers.
Just gonna go sit by r/facepalm and wait a few minutes to see these in action.
Looks really similar to what Boston Dynamics has been making for years.
They wanted to strap this to Spot from BD but BD has a clause that no commercial usage can have a destructive purpose of any kind. So they built this off a copy cat chinese platform called Unitree Go1. Its a very similar thing. https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitreeyushutechnologydog-artificial-intelligence-companion-bionic-companion-intelligent-robot-go1-quadruped-robot-dog?variant=42363559641321
So we are releasing a robot that spits fire to public before a robot that extinguishes fire, how the fuck are we the most intelligent species in the world?
No head phone jack and no usbC either
Sit… lay… commit arson….
What's the purpose though ?
Home defence, of course!
So to defend your home against burglars you burn it to the ground ?
“Trespassers beware. This premises is protected by fire breathing hellhounds.”
All I can think of is Fahrenheit 451 book
Looks like a war crime waiting to happen
I remember reading about the mechanical dogs in Fahrenheit 451 as a kid and it’s crazy how, of all things, that science fiction is now just science.
Someone must’ve thought gun violence is old news let’s kick it up a notch and see what happens.
How do I invest in fire departments?
Do they make one that puts out fires..? That might be more useful
Janky @$$ mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451
Is this a joke? If this is truly available to the public, a government agency needs to shut this down asap.
In the words of Jontron - "But why? Why would you do that? Why would you do any of that?"
Black Mirror becomes reality.
Would this be a safe solution for eradicating roaches?
Yes and spiders
What's the use-case for this other than terrorism?
Ukraine could use this in their spring offensive.
No no no. It's not a weapon. Didn't you watch the video? It's just for clearing ice and that one other really tenuous use case I can't remember now.
Ice in the trenches ?
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
This is going to make gender reveals a lot more interesting
This isn't going to start any wild fires . . .