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If you’ve been wondering when you’ll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived.
It features a one-hour battery, a 30-foot flame-throwing range, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity for remote control through a smartphone.
It also includes a LIDAR sensor for mapping and obstacle avoidance, laser sighting, and first-person view (FPV) navigation through an onboard camera.
The company lists possible applications of the new robot as “wildfire control and prevention,” “agricultural management,” “ecological conservation,” “snow and ice removal,” and “entertainment and SFX.”
Back in 2018, Elon Musk made the news for offering an official Boring Company flamethrower that reportedly sold 10,000 units in 48 hours.
Even so, to state the obvious, flamethrowers can easily burn both things and people, starting fires and wreaking havoc if not used safely.
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So how much for a shark with a frickin’ laser beam attached to its head?
I’d settle for some ill-tempered sea bass.
Sorry mortgage deposit, something else has come up
Thankfully your new purchase is fully able to “deal with” the bank
The whole article listing the various uses of flamethrowers, like environmental conservation, then mentioning concerns that flamethrowers can double as weapons is just… I don’t even know what to do with that.
it even lists napalm as an intended use. gonna conserve the hell out of that commie rainforest, I guess?
The thing is we on paper didn’t use incindiaries in Vietnam as anti personnel weapons, it was to torch the rainforest and deoxygenate tunnels. Now in practice we all know that flamethrowers were used on homes and have seen the pictures of the children with Napalm burns. But yeah this line of argument is nothing new.
I want it.
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.
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.
It’s for fighting on the side of fire
When we said give the people what they want, we got this, and we do.
Fire-extinguisher robot dogs in 3, 2, …
That was the excuse dog to make this dog possible. Please pay attention when safety robots are announced.
Yeah, no. Saving people sounds like a waste of money. How can we monetize saving them? Their deaths are way more lucrative.
They already have Spot dogs that can do fire supression. But they need the mechanical arm that the newer revisions introduced.
Hmmm. Don’t tell Vedal.
Nah, DO tell Vedal and start a gofundme so he can put Evil Neuro inside.
I think I made one of those in the new Zelda game
I just want one that delivers a beer and a hunk of summer sausage.
But a flamethrower? I guess…sure?
burns down house during summer sausage delivery
Well, you’re in luck! They’re already testing those out in Los Angeles: https://www.serverobotics.com/uber-eats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9MJorTjpxU
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Great. Which country has your bet for the first country to sic these on their enemies?
Well, that answers that question.
At last, a way to commit genocide without dirtying your hands. Combine that with their AI modelling of attack vict… targets, and they’ll just have a 24/7 roaming robot kill squad.
This is a great day! I think we can ALL agree that it’s been deeply frustrating to be priced out of the flame throwing robot dog market for so long.
You were paying the market rate for your flamethrowing robot dog? Dude, buy refurbished.
I’m waiting for more competition to enter the market and for prices to be driven down further.
Owning is boring. You want to rent one through my new app. FRaaS. Flamethrower robot as a service. I am starting the first round of venturing funding at 1 billion. It also has block chain in it.
It also has block chain in it.
The key is to use 100x more electricity than is actually needed.
You’re joking, but some tech bro is gonna try to do exactly that
This is an absolute W for flamethrowing robot dog enthusiasts everywhere.
Anyone able to loan me under $10,000? It’s for something really cool.
Give me $5K and a case of beer and I’ll make you a dog suit that breathes fire.
You always get a better bang for your buck investing in furries.
$7.5K if you want safety standards, though.
Cool? Not hot?
lol wat. why?
Flamethrower robot dog, pay attention.
Also: Which 2 states are the sane ones where this would be illegal?
Edit: California and Maryland. And you can have one in California, if you get a special permit.
Screw those states, flamethrowers are awesome and I want to see more of them.
Because. Also, flamethrower aren’t considered weapons by the government, so the only states that limits you from buying one is California and Ohio and Maryland banned them.
flamethrower aren’t considered weapons by the government
Considered firearms.
No they’re not. The ATF does not consider flamethrower a firearm and there exists no country wide law about flamethrower, and by law, even a felon can own a fully working flamethrower.
Right. I’m saying that you wanted to use the term “firearm”, not “weapon”.
Ok how the hell did Ohio limit flamethrowers? We’re the Florida of the north
Apparently the company is even based here in Cleveland
Didn’t expect Cleveland felt more dayton with the whole lunatic idea with military applications thing
Ohio has a ban too? The company that makes these is based in Ohio lol
Not a ban, a restriction. Like California, you need a permit. Sorry if I made that confusing.
Ok new life goal. Be that guy at the DMV with a permit for a flamethrower arguing with the civil servant that “because it is cool” is a valid reason
In most if not all states, if you have an AAA membership, you can do your DMV stuff at AAA offices and dodge the DMV entirely. The lines are way better.
In my area, the DMV is actually quite pleasant. I’ve had to go like 2-3x ever? And each time was a 15 min adventure:
- registered my car from out of state
- bought a car from a local private seller - I brought them with me to finalize the transfer
- bought a car from an out of state private seller (my brother), just brought the signed title
Or emissions checks can be submitted at the check station for $8 or filed online for free, so there’s no reason for most people to go to the DMV. In fact, most other stuff can be done online too.
It honestly takes longer for me to get there (like 15 min drive) than to actually get my business sorted. It’s one of the better run agencies in the state.
That said, the DOL division sucks. We don’t even require in person renewals, but the two times I had to go sucked (when I first moved here, and for my wife to get her license transferred). It’s a much smaller office with far more people waiting.
I have a DMV that’s never busy around me too, at the cost of being further out of my way (even more so now that I’ve moved even farther from it). But it’s worth being able to walk in and go right to a counter (without an appointment even!) instead of waiting 8+ fucking hours starting at 5am like the one in my actual city.
Of course they are…
California allows roofers to have flamethrowers. They use them for curing something in the roofing tiles(? I don’t know the proper term for those things. They’re basically cardboard covered in tar and gravel, possibly a thin layer of asphalt?).
It was a bit unnerving the first few times I heard the roofers doing their thing.
They’re called shingles, asphalt shingles being the most common in most parts of the US because they’re relatively inexpensive.
Because, Awesome!
No, the question is why not?
The next question is whether they can stick a couple chemical tanks with variable-flow valves on that thing to inject into the stream so that they can get RGB flames.
Where’s the robot to clean up the flaming, decapitated gopher carcasses off my lawn?
Where’s the robot to clean up the flaming, decapitated gopher carcasses off my lawn?
Not needed, because they get flamed while they’re in their burrows underground. So all you have to do is plug up the holes after the bot comes out and you’re done.
They have an app for that now. It’s like Uber but somehow even treats their “contractors” in a worse fashion. It’s called Flameaway.
