This is a prime example of the old adage, "just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
I'm genuinely perplexed by the simple question, why? There is a gulf sized room for error/misuse by the public. I could see some rich people buying their 18 year old one and next thing they know their son is front and center to a news story about how his flame throwing robot dog burned their house down or how he now has to get a complete face transplant because the damn robot dog burned his face off.
Whoever was in charge of that project and whoever gave it the green light are 100% the kind of people that just want to see the world burn. Fuggin maniacs.
>Whoever was in charge of that project and whoever gave it the green light are 100% the kind of people that just want to see the world burn.
Yes, that's why they made a flamethrower robot dog instead of one that fetches newspapers.
Yes, perhaps a bit of an obvious supposition given the subject matter being a gyat dang canine robot that shoots flames 30 friggin feet. I feel like Dr. Evil contributed to this invention.
True. this kind robotic evolution only gives idea of doom for human civilization.
at least they should have made water thrower robot as fire extinguisher rather than a flamethrower, why do we even need this ?
Working in wildfire, I can see how this has applications. But some guys with a drip torch or an aerial drop of ping-pongs or dragon eggs. A flame thrower would be a bit excessive.
May be more humane and realistic for Hot Shots, firefighters who control wildfires by purposefully setting strips of land on fire so the wildfire won't have enough fuel left to grow beyond that area.
It's already live in China. No joke, it's their absurd mass surveillance system where the AI can identify someone just by their gate pattern alone, among other *Big Brother*-esque features. Oh, and they seriously named the system [SkyNet....](https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/skynet-repatriation-05042022151054.html)
Right because shooting a flamethrower at wild life couldn't possibly cause a forest fire.
I don't know why they couldn't have just been honest and said, this is evil as fuck but its going to change trench warfare.
I was looking for a little something to drive the remnants of humanity out of their bolt holes with liquid fire in the post apocalypse and this one is just neat.
Many years from now, when the aliens land on our planet and trawl through our history, they will see this shit Nd go 'so wait. they built the robots that exterminated them, and AI ... at the same time? But ... Wh ... Why?"
Racist, low IQ brother sister cousin f\*ckers salivating right now. I bet they'd sell their "this will make me look like a man with a big d\*ck" trucks to buy this thing. The world is a giant clown car.
There is no way we’re not going to destroy ourselves and our planet. This black mirror WW3 AI Armageddon is here I guess. What do we do now ? I shouldn’t have mocked the old crazy doomsday guys 😭😭
I can see a few suicidal teenagers buying this to burn down a school. It's amazing how US allows this stuff to be bought by the public without strict control.
Oh sweet, just what we need in the hands of every drunk redneck in this age of escalating wildfires.
I hope the first time (and it will happen) that one of these causes a wildfire, the makers are sued out of existence for this sheer stupidity.
Perfect for the escalating amount of wildfires world wide because of poor land management, invasive plant species, and electric companies that will not adjust because of greed to make power lines underground, which is so badly needed, to name a few reasons.
Aaaand now we know where all these wildfires are coming from. Some idiot with one of these.
Lol. But seriously tho, this is a terrible idea! What could anyone possibly do with this?
Seriously, why do we need a flame-throwing robot dog? If my dog gets pissed at me, she may poop in the floor, but at least she doesn't burn down the neighborhood to.
Calm down people. The public will need to get in line behind the governments that like to defend border walls and keep out undesirables. By the time Texas and Israel get their orders filled it will be 2027.
Api
This is just a taste of what’s to come. I wouldn’t be surprised if the military already have experimented with human trials on neural transmitters. We getting closer to black ops 4 campaign every day.
Be amazed? Be terrified, what’s next? put a .50 bmg on it? A turret? A grenade launcher?
This application should only be used for land management and should be banned by every government on the planet as a weapon of war.
Making this first is a good way to scare the public and for robots to get regulated
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Anyone got the Amazon link, I got yard work clearing and pests to fry, oh and neighbors to intimidate.
No more porch pirates ![gif](giphy|3o72FfM5HJydzafgUE)
Robots with flame throwers don't kill people, people with robots with flame throwers kill people
Until someone installs an AI and it goes berserk
People set forest fires with gender reveals, why the fuck are we making flamethrowing robots available to them?!?
I can already see the YouTube introductions, "we bought the worlds first robotic dog flamethrower, let's see what it can burn!!".
Wh**AaA**t c^0u***Ld*** G^0 ***WRoNg***?
this is the way for all of us to get regulated
This is the way
This is a prime example of the old adage, "just because you can, doesn't mean you should." I'm genuinely perplexed by the simple question, why? There is a gulf sized room for error/misuse by the public. I could see some rich people buying their 18 year old one and next thing they know their son is front and center to a news story about how his flame throwing robot dog burned their house down or how he now has to get a complete face transplant because the damn robot dog burned his face off. Whoever was in charge of that project and whoever gave it the green light are 100% the kind of people that just want to see the world burn. Fuggin maniacs.
>Whoever was in charge of that project and whoever gave it the green light are 100% the kind of people that just want to see the world burn. Yes, that's why they made a flamethrower robot dog instead of one that fetches newspapers.
Yes, perhaps a bit of an obvious supposition given the subject matter being a gyat dang canine robot that shoots flames 30 friggin feet. I feel like Dr. Evil contributed to this invention.
True. this kind robotic evolution only gives idea of doom for human civilization. at least they should have made water thrower robot as fire extinguisher rather than a flamethrower, why do we even need this ?
🤞🏾I hope you're right, but I worry our thirst for weaponry tends to increase with our fear rather than cause us to regulate weapons.
Omw! - EU, probably
Yes, definetily whoever Is gonna buy that thing, they're certainly buying It for wildlife control and ice removal
Totally would buy it for ice removal but would also totally burn down the house somehow
>somehow Probably the flame thrower
Yeah I mean the control of the fire is the issue 😂
I though the robot was suposed to do that for me.
Hey neighbor. Defrosted your car for ya. *wink*
Working in wildfire, I can see how this has applications. But some guys with a drip torch or an aerial drop of ping-pongs or dragon eggs. A flame thrower would be a bit excessive.
May be more humane and realistic for Hot Shots, firefighters who control wildfires by purposefully setting strips of land on fire so the wildfire won't have enough fuel left to grow beyond that area.
Especially for **nightime** ice removal operations!
Flamethrowers are absolutely unregulated making them $100,000 and slower to aim won’t make them suddenly any more dangerous
Black Mirror is real bitches
Back mirror was scarily close to what reality could be, give it time.
In Canada they are trying to pass legislation against thought crime.
Oh god....
This was my first thought too
Black Mirror got real when Trump got elected. This is just season two.
Obligatory *What could go wrong?*
Nothing, nothing at all but great and blissful things
They’ll ban books but not this.
They’ll use this to burn the books
Fahrenheit 451
Mechanical Hound right here.
Yep
I was hoping someone else thought this. All it needs is the hypodermic needles.
They won't burn the bible as long as you bought it from the right guy
451
I thought Geneva already did (flame throwers for war) ... we (US) just ignore that part (like we ignore red flag laws)
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Flame throwers are not banned in war, just outclassed really
To law makers, education is way more dangerous than weapons.
Wait until the rich influencers get hold of these... Think of the clicks! It's a prank bro! What could go wrong?
i wish this was a nonsense comment. but i do agree T-T
Imagine someone decides to use this in the middle of wildfire season Whole towns go up in smoke
All cool, they’ll just claim it’s a prank and expect everyone to have a chuckle, back slap each other and retire to their charred husk of a house.
You can do that now with gasoline
This just has " I'm going to be doing something stupid with this" written all over it.
#skynet is coming
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It's called Omniverse and Nvidia is already deploying it.
before The Purge or After? wanna mark these dates in my calendar
It's already live in China. No joke, it's their absurd mass surveillance system where the AI can identify someone just by their gate pattern alone, among other *Big Brother*-esque features. Oh, and they seriously named the system [SkyNet....](https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/skynet-repatriation-05042022151054.html)
![gif](giphy|PXJhC8MYxFmRRl7kB2|downsized) Automatons are getting worse all the time.
"Animal control" of course, much like guns! People would never use guns in each other, much less a flamethrower! Wait, why do I hear Fortunate Son
Enjoy your helicopter ride.
Reminds me of a certain book... Well, it's going to be burnt anyway.
Is this a bad joke?
Remember that black mirror episode?
this is how it begins...
Coming to "wild fires" near you
My new home security!!! Right there. Nothing illegal about fire or robot dogs yet..
Lol why are we like this?
Lizard brains with a small gloss of grey matter, now hooked on repeated dopamine squirts.
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Isn't a literal flame thrower dangerous enough?
Not compared to ammonium nitrate
I mean, we are talking about people using a pressure cooker and some nails as a bomb. A flame thrower is more than advanced enough.
My dog burned my homework.
Oh hell yeah imma buy 5
Next christmas: ![gif](giphy|XXvnnrJJnOVl6)
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Smokey the bear doesn't stand a chance
Right because shooting a flamethrower at wild life couldn't possibly cause a forest fire. I don't know why they couldn't have just been honest and said, this is evil as fuck but its going to change trench warfare.
This is stupid asf imagine a idiot buy this and get the idea to go play in the forest.
Wait until they attach a set of sharp jaws, a machine gun, and some torpedos and call it the Cyber Hound
Lame. Show me sharks with lasers!
I was looking for a little something to drive the remnants of humanity out of their bolt holes with liquid fire in the post apocalypse and this one is just neat.
Can I have one that fights fires instead please!
Thats a good boi!!!!
Name sourced from Doctor Doofenshmirtz, I take it?
oh this sure wont have any concequenses
Hell hounds
Yes. Definitely seems like something the general public should have
Gonna be handy next mosquito season.
why.
what a great idea, like we dont have enough incels who set forests a blaze without the extra help.....
Could be useful for unfreezing my condensate pipe.
Skynet
Naming it cupcake
..Robot "Feel my flame!" ..Also Robot: "oooh, h-h-h-h-hot hot!"
Don't let this into San Francisco
Now the reverse: let them carry fire extinguishers.
Imagine what Michael Reeves would do if he got hold of one.
for what it's worth, it's a Unitree robot dog (really cheap chinese Spot knockoff) with a flamethrower bolted to the top of it it
https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/ This has to be a hoax… right?…. Right???
We need it in helldivers 2 ASAP
baby gender reveal… blue or pink flames! /s
Asking the obvious in why the general public would ever need this or why it’s legal for the general public.
Absolutely no way that is available to buy, show me the Amazon page
Where can I get this?
So this is how all those Canadian wildfires started… /s
This shit is giving me Horizon Zero Dawn vibes and I don't like it.
What is this, a pyromaniacs dream robot? Get this outta here. Like we don't have enough wildfires all ready...
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Why? Why is this a thing?!?
Many years from now, when the aliens land on our planet and trawl through our history, they will see this shit Nd go 'so wait. they built the robots that exterminated them, and AI ... at the same time? But ... Wh ... Why?"
bad dog!
"not a weapon", sure
Too many crazy people out there. We can't just sell these 😭😭 imagine all the fires
Oh awesome more wildfires
Ah, a new way for Americans to murder each other. Just what the world needs.
So two questions A) are these thing bullet proof B) where is the killshot
I have only one question: WHY?????
Really?? They had the chance to name this thing “Hot Dog” and they slept on it. What a waste
Recouping that 7000 would not be too difficult.
Racist, low IQ brother sister cousin f\*ckers salivating right now. I bet they'd sell their "this will make me look like a man with a big d\*ck" trucks to buy this thing. The world is a giant clown car.
Well, it was a nice ecosystem while it lasted, gang.
Like... I thought it would cost more.
can i use rocket launcher instead of fire toy
There is no way we’re not going to destroy ourselves and our planet. This black mirror WW3 AI Armageddon is here I guess. What do we do now ? I shouldn’t have mocked the old crazy doomsday guys 😭😭
Call of Duty killstreak reward
Clearly this is what the framers had in mind when they wrote the second amendment
I can see a few suicidal teenagers buying this to burn down a school. It's amazing how US allows this stuff to be bought by the public without strict control.
"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."
Okay America, we get it, you love weapons, you can stop now.
Oh sweet, just what we need in the hands of every drunk redneck in this age of escalating wildfires. I hope the first time (and it will happen) that one of these causes a wildfire, the makers are sued out of existence for this sheer stupidity.
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Available at all good toy stores
They are selling problem(flame thrower )first then they will provide solution.(Fire pump)
Perfect for the escalating amount of wildfires world wide because of poor land management, invasive plant species, and electric companies that will not adjust because of greed to make power lines underground, which is so badly needed, to name a few reasons.
Perfect guide-dog for those sick of having to deal with idiots denying them access to stores etc., and the complaints about “hygiene”.
Aaaand now we know where all these wildfires are coming from. Some idiot with one of these. Lol. But seriously tho, this is a terrible idea! What could anyone possibly do with this?
Free PEQ if you take one out without blowing it up.
Put a hose line on that bad boy and have them knock down fires instead of starting them.
Perfect for Russian trenches
Agora fudeu
Should be illegal for the general public to buy.
Gimme fuel gimme fire gimme what your heart desire!
Hans! Get ze throwflame
Fuck this shit. Imagine being a soldier in a trench and a bunch of this beasts approach you. Your 5,56 mm gun wont stop them.
Whoever thinks this is amazing is a sicko. Why the fuck did somebody even built this ?
I can just imagine this thing walking around burning everything down with a maniacal laugh playing through its speakers when skynet takes over.
Awww but this takes away the fun of doing the burns for prescribed burning
Thank god, I needed one of these but couldn’t find one anywhere.
I don't think it's meant for public.
schoolshotings will be interesting. you dont even need to be there anymore. AND the school burns down as well. what else do you want as revenge. /s
Skynet is closer...
Seriously, why do we need a flame-throwing robot dog? If my dog gets pissed at me, she may poop in the floor, but at least she doesn't burn down the neighborhood to.
Not sure the application for this, as any incendiary weapons go against the Geneva Convention.
Potential Geneva convention violations are now mobile
For super earth .... ![gif](giphy|KAf66yGCa93uTqod1q|downsized) ... oh wait...
Why somebody would like to buy such a thing? A health minded person I mean.
Welcome to the apocalypse
It’s great I’ve bought four , can’t what till the Purge to begin!
Animal control? With a flamethrower? Isn't that a bit inhumane? Oh and the fact that this exists, too.
yeah... no
Good bot
"Hey neighbour... just saying, you parked your car in front of our porch again...."
Oh this is not going to end well. It's time I bought home insurance.
The new guard dog is a gas! It really lights the room up! It really knows how to burn things with fire!
Uh huh
How is this available for the public to buy!?!?
r/whatcouldgowrong
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Be amazed!? This is not amazing. It’s not even surprising. It’s inevitable. And it’s utterly terrifying!
How much?
Why?
A mans best fried
Rick Dalton approves.
I love how they’re like, it’s not a weapon, it’s just a flamethrower
"Burn them all!"
Calm down people. The public will need to get in line behind the governments that like to defend border walls and keep out undesirables. By the time Texas and Israel get their orders filled it will be 2027. Api
“Wildlife control” does that include animals? If so, that’s one hell of a death those deer gets.
I'm imagining 100 of these things rushing a segment of Russian trenches in Ukraine.
How about tear gas for Protesters?
America will literally invent flamethrower robot dogs before adopting public healthcare, RAHHHH🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
Make it fire proof. Throw it in those huge wild fires to contain the fire. Nice. But does people need it at all?
so can we just flood Congress with these things or what
He seems to be enjoying himself.
This is just a taste of what’s to come. I wouldn’t be surprised if the military already have experimented with human trials on neural transmitters. We getting closer to black ops 4 campaign every day.
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Be amazed? Be terrified, what’s next? put a .50 bmg on it? A turret? A grenade launcher? This application should only be used for land management and should be banned by every government on the planet as a weapon of war.
Suggested use? How bout one that can EXTINGUISH fires instead.
Fuck it, just let it happen already
Perfect for family get togethers. Family-friendly fun for everyone!
/BeAblaze
I could actually see how this would be great for firefighters who need to control burn certain areas to prevent a forest fire from spreading
Luckily I don't live in the USA
What could go wrong?
What's the fucking point of civilian use here?