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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's for fighting on the side of fire

[–] bane_killgrind@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

When we said give the people what they want, we got this, and we do.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

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.