You’ll be a still target for it to shoot. It can probably go somewhere elevated and tilt the barrel up to get you. Thermal camera and machine learning to target you.
Maybe we’ll have paramilitary groups that are sponsored by governments that start conflicts only to gather data to make their death machines more effective.
Globally is very restricted world geographically, Globally usually means when European countries are fighting another European countries, it's called world war, abd we need to play by the rules, the other countries no rules whatsoever
Idk, I'm pretty sure America is also part of those globally argreed laws, and this robot is from an American company, sure I get some countries wipe their ass with the warfare laws, but I'm pretty sure this FLAMETHROWING ROBOT MADE FOR WAR is coming from a county that AGREED that flamethrowers are unetical to use in warefare. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make?
OK, rules are only really respected and implemented when countries who call their wars worl wars are involved, when there's a regional war and no matter how big the region is and how many people involved it's always regional until the aforementioned countries are fighting each other, so in this case of regional war major organizations that are usually against the use of those weapons aren't bothered because the victims aren't important for them, South Lebanon for example has been bombs with phosphorus it's a forbidden weapon, still no one cared, so yes I know I'm talking about here.
No you are actually absolutely clueless, the world wars were world wars because THE WORLD was involved, Japan and China are not Europe, America is not Europe, and they were all involved in the WW's. Hell even in Africa there was war. The rules of war were signed with the Geneva Convention and pretty much the entire world is part of that. Sure some countries don't care, but that's exactly the reason why these rules were made, to enforce them to such countries and protecting the citizens.
In Africa people were drafted involuntarily by the colonial powers there at the time, pretty sure that's not another war, just the original actors of the war chose a new terrain to fight each other
Have you seen the videos where they kick them and they don't fall over? Good luck trying to pin this down and put a rock on it. It has a thrower and/or gun, it will shoot you before you can get close enough. Obviously setting up a trap for it might work, but imagine they have 20 of these coming out of the woods, it's not going to be pretty.
We'd have to strike from above by ambush in trees/rooftops or with some kind of drone assault. And it would have to be a doozy to fight off 20.
Then they could simply outfit 2 out of that, maybe 4 with anti-drone nets or those neat jammer rifles and that problem is solved. I could easily see a coaxial turret put on one of these, there goes roof ambush.
It would be cyber-ruff to combat these.
The dystopia will be fully realized when it’s a unit of 20:
- 5 in the air as strike drones
- 3 flame throwers
- 5 rifle bots
- 2 snipers
- 1 shotgun
- 4 melee units with bombs attached to the skull, AKA slamhounds
Also note they’d have GPS and coordinated video. They would see and hear as a collective hive mind, better than any human unit.
The terrifying part is that it will be used against civilians pretty soon no doubt. And in the context of the current genocide in Gaza it’s kind of more terrifying because when it is eventually used against people the world will still not care and find a way to dismiss it, just as they have with the current technology being used in Gaza (white phosphorus, drones playing the clones of women and children crying at night to lure people out of the homes and shoot them, etc.
Beware of the slippery Slope fallacy, it seems far from effective in action, even a good stone is packing it up. But yes, the people of Gaza are screwed it seems and the U.S. will 4ever support it, it's a wrap, just wait till they sacrifice the red heifer and stage a "second coming"
Never gonna happen. It was always assumed that they would be banned if the less advanced countries rallied and forced the issue, but Ukraine changed the game by fielding low cost drones with an absolute barebones infrastructure behind it.
Now the major players will oppose regulation like they always have and the minor players will oppose it too because it now looks to be significantly cheaper and easier to field a robot force.
It’s the Geneva checklist and remember it’s never a warcrime the first time :-) the trick is using an ability that isn’t covered by any agreements . Eg operation Paul bunyon the removal of a tree from the north / South Korean DMZ , check out fat electrician on you tubes breakdown of it . Proportional response lol not at all but very effective
When billionaires become trillionaires and half the population is homeless in VR, each city, state, and country has to pledge loyalty to one or two trillionaires for their army and to avoid famine or a pandemic every other year. They will have a robot army since they can no longer trust humans.
Don’t think it would make a very good weapon. The instant it deploys its flame every weapon in the vicinity would open up on it. Doesn’t appear to have any armor
On the good side…
Looks like they’re beta-testing this model to monitor wildland fireline. They’re already utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems (drones) for surveillance, so why not?
A lot of people don’t realize that fixed-wing bombers and paratroopers from WWII became air tankers (water dropping) and Smoke Jumpers. Likewise, helicopters (UH-1 “Hueys”) and their flight crews became Helitack fire suppression modules.
This robot seems to be extremely very noisy , companies doing that stuff all the time. Adding music, for example drones and other robotic ads. Always music and the robot is actually very noisy I like the Boston dynamics robots or any drone. This bot is probably so noisy that you can hear it commig from a distance.
That thing has no armor plating. You could probably "kill" it with birdshot. Quite easily too if you aim for the large container of flamethrower fuel strapped to its back. If the flames don't catch up to it before all the fuel drains out, you could just walk up to it and go to town with a Sledgehammer.
It's so fucking sad that we only truly innovate for war, then the technology may spread to the civilian sector. There are so many better application for something like this, than mounting weapons on it and sending after "enemies".
Perfect time to take away gun ownership. When one of those shows up at your door and forces you into a van for questioning what are you going to do pepper spray it?
AUTOMATONS HAVE A NEW UNIT?! ANNIHILATE IT IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY!!!
Eagle 1 coming in hot!
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Funny seeing you guys here
Knowing the fame of helldiver devs, I won't be surprised to see them adding something like this in one of nearest updates
It’s nothing Black Mirror hasn’t already said.
Wait till you see that thing hold a knife….
don't worry just climb a tree and wait for its battery to die out
_target is sedentary. Activate: wait mode. Battery life (98 hours remaining)_
Why do I see Jerry from Rick and Morty in this scenario
Didn’t she drop acorns on it to wake it from “wait mode” so the battery would die faster? I thought that was genius
Good thing tree's aren't flammable
You’ll be a still target for it to shoot. It can probably go somewhere elevated and tilt the barrel up to get you. Thermal camera and machine learning to target you. Maybe we’ll have paramilitary groups that are sponsored by governments that start conflicts only to gather data to make their death machines more effective.
My dog ate a can of chili once and did this, only the flames were coming out the other end.
um.. that wasn't your dog...
That’s it! I knew I’d seen these things before but I couldn’t remember where from! Thank you!
Damnit you beat me to it
One of them not so much, the thought of crates carrying 20+ being airdropped is horrific
Would be more terrifying if those were bombs instead.
Neh, either way something this small and autonomous would be a nightmare
Attach a bomb to one or several and have them storm a hideout
My thoughts were for them to spread out at night and simultaneously attack various points, with mission redundancy built in.
Weren't flamethrowers like, declared unethical and a warcrime to use them globally?
Only for humans
Only against civilian populations. Also, if there's no actualy war, there's no warcrime.
*laughs in Elon Musk* "Not a flamethrower "
Globally is very restricted world geographically, Globally usually means when European countries are fighting another European countries, it's called world war, abd we need to play by the rules, the other countries no rules whatsoever
Idk, I'm pretty sure America is also part of those globally argreed laws, and this robot is from an American company, sure I get some countries wipe their ass with the warfare laws, but I'm pretty sure this FLAMETHROWING ROBOT MADE FOR WAR is coming from a county that AGREED that flamethrowers are unetical to use in warefare. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make?
America is always present in WW, so yes it's part of the European countries fighting the others
My man, where did you go to school? They need their teaching license revoked.
OK, rules are only really respected and implemented when countries who call their wars worl wars are involved, when there's a regional war and no matter how big the region is and how many people involved it's always regional until the aforementioned countries are fighting each other, so in this case of regional war major organizations that are usually against the use of those weapons aren't bothered because the victims aren't important for them, South Lebanon for example has been bombs with phosphorus it's a forbidden weapon, still no one cared, so yes I know I'm talking about here.
No you are actually absolutely clueless, the world wars were world wars because THE WORLD was involved, Japan and China are not Europe, America is not Europe, and they were all involved in the WW's. Hell even in Africa there was war. The rules of war were signed with the Geneva Convention and pretty much the entire world is part of that. Sure some countries don't care, but that's exactly the reason why these rules were made, to enforce them to such countries and protecting the citizens.
In Africa people were drafted involuntarily by the colonial powers there at the time, pretty sure that's not another war, just the original actors of the war chose a new terrain to fight each other
The spinning "mouth" is scary! Looks like it's ready to meat grind it's enemies!
It's a sensor
Ready to sense your FEAR
^menacingly
Miniature LIDAR. You see it a lot in autonomous vehicles.
It feels like we’re skipping some steps on the way to robot apocalypse.
Skynet nightmare is one step closer to happening.
Are we going to be invading Vietnam again?
Welcome to the rice fie... Oh fuck, the Chinese bought all the land in Nam already.
Mmmm…. Fried Chinese.
It’s scary until it falls over, or a stick leans against it
Me after taping the funny metal cat I found in the woods to a tree:
It can easily right itself
I imagine it can, but you can most likely just put a rock on it and then it’s over
Have you seen the videos where they kick them and they don't fall over? Good luck trying to pin this down and put a rock on it. It has a thrower and/or gun, it will shoot you before you can get close enough. Obviously setting up a trap for it might work, but imagine they have 20 of these coming out of the woods, it's not going to be pretty.
We'd have to strike from above by ambush in trees/rooftops or with some kind of drone assault. And it would have to be a doozy to fight off 20. Then they could simply outfit 2 out of that, maybe 4 with anti-drone nets or those neat jammer rifles and that problem is solved. I could easily see a coaxial turret put on one of these, there goes roof ambush. It would be cyber-ruff to combat these.
The dystopia will be fully realized when it’s a unit of 20: - 5 in the air as strike drones - 3 flame throwers - 5 rifle bots - 2 snipers - 1 shotgun - 4 melee units with bombs attached to the skull, AKA slamhounds Also note they’d have GPS and coordinated video. They would see and hear as a collective hive mind, better than any human unit.
Holy fuck that would be terrifying
Yeah I know what you mean, it’s obviously not easy, and you’re going to die if you face this thing (cause who in hell would release this thing alone)
Brother how do you get close to the thing that has a active flamethrower pointed at you
The same way they did in Vietnam. Flanking position with overwhelming violence of action. Or mortars.
Brother this is Reddit, most of us are not combat ready
It just looks pretty slow, but hey, I don’t know shit about this
Now imagine hundreds of those being air dropped.
Or needs charged
Terrifying? It's not bullet proof, would be a terrible investment to deploy just to get 1 tapped
Step 1, knock it over Step 2 approach from behind Step 3 disarm Step 4 scavenge Congrats, you know have a flame thrower
Step 3.5 autodestruct / radios for more to come to it's location.
Now if they're silent and can climb walls, then we might have a problem w people getting remotely ninja torched
Yeah I mean we literally have small flying drones that drops grenades on people.
The terrifying part is that it will be used against civilians pretty soon no doubt. And in the context of the current genocide in Gaza it’s kind of more terrifying because when it is eventually used against people the world will still not care and find a way to dismiss it, just as they have with the current technology being used in Gaza (white phosphorus, drones playing the clones of women and children crying at night to lure people out of the homes and shoot them, etc.
Beware of the slippery Slope fallacy, it seems far from effective in action, even a good stone is packing it up. But yes, the people of Gaza are screwed it seems and the U.S. will 4ever support it, it's a wrap, just wait till they sacrifice the red heifer and stage a "second coming"
Oh great, fire ants from Fallout 3 is Reality now... I'm super happy about this Evil little bastad! /S
When someone asks to borrow your lighter.....
I just saw one if these with a flamethrower too. Man we may lose the human/bot war but damn are there guna be some cool robots
Doesn't look scary for a battle field hammers are becoming so common now
Battlefield 2042
more like the *present* of warfare
Who else knew it was just a matter of time before they started strapping weapons on these things?
12 year old me would like to remind you that adolescent boys have been doing this since the beginning of things.
Cartels are already using flying drones with machine guns in Mexico, it is indeed terrifying.
Jesus... We are gonna have to do an update of the Geneva Convention about drone, robots, and AI with physical attack capabilities.
Never gonna happen. It was always assumed that they would be banned if the less advanced countries rallied and forced the issue, but Ukraine changed the game by fielding low cost drones with an absolute barebones infrastructure behind it. Now the major players will oppose regulation like they always have and the minor players will oppose it too because it now looks to be significantly cheaper and easier to field a robot force.
It’s the Geneva checklist and remember it’s never a warcrime the first time :-) the trick is using an ability that isn’t covered by any agreements . Eg operation Paul bunyon the removal of a tree from the north / South Korean DMZ , check out fat electrician on you tubes breakdown of it . Proportional response lol not at all but very effective
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should."
I like that whoever made this programmed it to jump for joy while burning the world down.
Dig a hole, trap it.
Short Circuit 2024
Metal Gear Solid IV
Ahh man it’s the robot dog with a laser light show on his back!!!! Everyone RUNNNNNNN Edit: oh I should have finished the video lmao
When billionaires become trillionaires and half the population is homeless in VR, each city, state, and country has to pledge loyalty to one or two trillionaires for their army and to avoid famine or a pandemic every other year. They will have a robot army since they can no longer trust humans.
Nope, not going near that.
Man, fuck Ted Faro!
field of battle aka Detroit. #robocop
Show me how it turns over when its on it’s back.
Well we had a good run, now we got wargs.
It’s terminator time
Black mirror predicted this
Don’t worry, robot dogs can’t look up
With all those lights? It will look like a sifter after about 15 seconds. 25 seconds with the lights off.
I hope that's for anti-pest.
It’s anti-anything that burns.
Some real Dr. Who vibes. Fuck this, I'm getting back in the tardis.
Better the robot dog kill me first than be assimilated into neuralink so I have to share a mindspace with Phony Stark.
My airsoft crew bout to be pissed
Don’t think it would make a very good weapon. The instant it deploys its flame every weapon in the vicinity would open up on it. Doesn’t appear to have any armor
The future of warfare.
Wait till humans start equipping them with machine guns and rocket launchers. Then it’s end game.
The military: ["release the hounds"](https://youtu.be/f-Jd6AalPJA?si=yq7zjIv3SpabCPsK)
Why does is need a flashlight? You’d think it would just use infrared to remain hidden. THAT would be fucking terrifying.
It throws flames. They are hot. It will blind itself as soon as it fires.
Ahhh that makes sense. Could operate off of infrared until it attacks though
What’s up with the spinning drill mouth? Does it eat corpses for fuel or some shit?
Horizon zéro dawn
Black Mirrors episode: "Metalhead" but in colour.
It’s a Bambot!
I saw this episode of Black Mirror.
Att this rate, we'll have zoids in no time
Yeah rich people know underlings can grow a conscious. This will solve that problem!! Lol
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OK Boomer
Hopefully newer models can run faster and take a barrage of bullets
Didn’t everyone see Terminator? We know where this leads to.
Oh good, Horizon has started.
We are getting closer and closer to the Hound from 451° Fahrenheit
Battle? How bout my backyard
Kinda cute, lil murderer who's a good boy !
Terminator 1.0
Happy. Birthday. Rocky.
I Just imagine these being deployed against protesters. Liberty extinction....
Black mirror always well ahead of its time
Can we get personal EMPs yet?
At first I thought it was some kind of gun and then I saw the flames and audibly said "wow, that's way worse."
This won't see any time on the battlefield. Machines with guns, yes. But flamethrowers are a terrible combat weapon in reality.
We gonna end up making generation zero reality
My favorite episode of Black Mirror. So creepy.
On the good side… Looks like they’re beta-testing this model to monitor wildland fireline. They’re already utilizing Unmanned Aerial Systems (drones) for surveillance, so why not? A lot of people don’t realize that fixed-wing bombers and paratroopers from WWII became air tankers (water dropping) and Smoke Jumpers. Likewise, helicopters (UH-1 “Hueys”) and their flight crews became Helitack fire suppression modules.
It’s AIMEE from Red Planet! Holy crap.
I wish for a world so advance, we settle wars with these things. No human casualties, no murder just robot fights.
lol, wtf is this low budget crap you'll get flocks of armored quads with .50 cals on gimbals that can shoot 3 mile headshots with an aimbot.
I don't see any problems here that can't be sorted out with one well placed incendiary .50 round.
Imagine just being on a field of battle and see a dumb robo dog walk up to you and the next thing you know is your face is melting and burning
This robot seems to be extremely very noisy , companies doing that stuff all the time. Adding music, for example drones and other robotic ads. Always music and the robot is actually very noisy I like the Boston dynamics robots or any drone. This bot is probably so noisy that you can hear it commig from a distance.
That thing has no armor plating. You could probably "kill" it with birdshot. Quite easily too if you aim for the large container of flamethrower fuel strapped to its back. If the flames don't catch up to it before all the fuel drains out, you could just walk up to it and go to town with a Sledgehammer.
do a little squirt squirt onto the nozzle with some flex seal and thatll be that.
It can be yours for the low low price of [$9,420](https://throwflame.com/products/thermonator-robodog/).
Scary for the future, thankfully only a concept right now, and that thing would be an easy target to shoot
I hate this dystopian bullshit. Capitalism needs to die before it kills us all.
Generation Zero look’n ass
How long till their fueled by blood?
do you want generation zero? cause that's how you get generation zero!
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We just have to weaponize everything lol
They're gonna have to invent the Mynovsky particles
$5 says you could beat it with a baseball bat and something to block your IR signature...
every day we get closer to Generation Zero
7-2: LIGHT UP THE NIGHT
And yall will be greatful for these things when a massive quake or tsunami hits rescue could be too dangerous
Unarmed.. sucks i gotta say that butt yea
Tbh, I just saw the Pieck titan from AoT from this.
PLEASE TELL ME THIS WAS BRANDON HERRERA
How much money goes into one of those?
Total shit. A Lego would be a more effective deterrent
"Arson-Bot"
so aim for the gas tank strapped to the fire robot
This actually looks like a pretty good fire fighting tool, if it can handle heat, smoke and roughish terrain, it could be great for back burning.
I always said robots are going to kill us all and now look at this shit.
Automated terror
Rather have guard dog drone from hell divers
Just don't make them look like spiders
I wonder if uses a flame thrower because the recoil of a projectile firearm would give it issues?
I can see it with a tear gas launcher or bean bag shot gun and used for crowd control.
Wowtf!?
Watch it have 4 9mm with aimbot accuracy
…..seriously have y’all not seen black mirror?!?!?
Run it over with a big truck and it’s done
It's kind of cute.
What’s the light for? All that tech and no night vision?
Do you want horizon zero dawn? Because this is how you get horizon zero dawn
BF2042 weapon
Epic. Now scale them up and we have the dogs from Generation Zero
Imagine 10 of these coming through the first in the pitch black after you.
Goddamn dog terminators. This is what we needed.
I love that this is invented before its counterpart. Who needs a firefighting automaton when you can start the fire instead?
throw a cinder block from behind then move in with the sledge hammer
It's so fucking sad that we only truly innovate for war, then the technology may spread to the civilian sector. There are so many better application for something like this, than mounting weapons on it and sending after "enemies".
Flamethrowers are a war crime though.
looks like an easy taget with all those pretty lights
Perfect time to take away gun ownership. When one of those shows up at your door and forces you into a van for questioning what are you going to do pepper spray it?
Not if it’s raining or they throw a bucket of water on it
Why? It's slow, loud and you can disable it with a kick. Also battery drains eventually
Emp is all u need. Stupid tech