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Flame-throwing drones burning trash is the future we deserve


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Guest Yoni Heisler
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For as much ink as AI-infused robots get in the press, fueled in part by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warning us of a future filled with "killer robots", I think we need to start focusing on a far more worrisome piece of technology: Flame-throwing drones.

 

Recently, a power company based out of Xiangyang, China came up with the idea as a way to clear power lines of pesky debris, often in the form of plastic bags and other pieces of trash that somehow find landing spots in less than ideal locations. Their badass fire-oriented solution, like most great innovations of our time, seems obvious in hindsight.

 

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