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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
(arstechnica.com)
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Completely useless for firefighting. Putting a drip torch on its ass and letting it walk a line, maybe. But it's not going to cut down the trees to make a firebreak, who what's the point.
It's for fighting on the side of fire
When we said give the people what they want, we got this, and we do.
A lot of wildfires aren't in areas with trees, brush fires are incredibly dangerous too. Source: I live in an area with brush fires.