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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
(arstechnica.com)
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What possible use case is there for this that isn't a felony of some description?
Gonna assume controlled burns in difficult terrain.
Also the reason that flamethrowers aren't illegal in most states, since being able to project flame makes controlled burns a lot easier.
I thought they use those fire paintball marker things
Deer hunting. Don't think, just buy one and do it. It's the American way.
get a nice char on them fuckers while they twitchin
Don't even bother shooting them, just use the flamethrower for everything. There may be collateral damage but it's worth it.
West bank.
I say that, but I, in no way, want that to happen.
But yeah, Boston Dynamic have long said that they don't want their robots weaponised, but here we are seeing it happen.
Boston Dynamics has made multiple robots for DARPA. If they make a really great platform, I expect they're probably gonna be weaponized at some point. Maybe not by them, but...
I remember a buddy of mine who was working on an autonomous, self-mapping rover research project at his university on a DARPA project. He was just working on the navigation side, part of a larger project. He was telling me how he had a "huh" moment when they got the first control unit and it had a big red button on it labelled "weapon".
Boston Dynamic didn't let this happen. Their EULA explicitly prevents people from doing this so they used this robot from Unitree instead
Employees trying to unionize.
At least it seems like that sort of thing never ends up being a felony...
Seems perfect for mole problems.
Now that's how you kill all the gophers
How else am I gonna light the fireplace without getting up from the couch?
Rapid heating of slabs of meat for some weird meat effect rich people pay for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butane_torch
They are not actually that expensive. You just feel posh when you use one.
My girlfriend came with one, it's great for grilled cheese. But I'm not allowed to use it anymore because I set fire to a chocolate bar.
Huh. TIL.
https://kitchenroar.com/flammable/chocolate/
See, I don't see how one would have known that without having actually experimented and set a chocolate bar on fire, though.
Bored on a weeknight
I don't know if I'd ever be bored if I had a Wee Knight to ride.
You should really get the full size, mine tires out too quickly
Fuck up the rabbits that eat my flowers and leave a monolayer of rabbit shit on my property?
Have you considered a regular dog that doesn't shoot flames? Our non-flamethrowing dog does a very good job taking care of the rabbits she can't chase away.
Probably leaves a monolayer of dog shit, though. Now, a flamethrower robo-dog, there's the dog of the future.
You can pick up dog shit. You can't unburn your lawn.
Roofing
throw flames at your enemies from your roof
I hate having to carry around a .5g firelight, this will save me the immense difficulty.
Kudzu abatement.