Ohio-based company Throwflame is now selling its terrifying 'Thermonator' robot, complete with flamethrower.
While it's easy to imagine purchasing a robot capable of helping out around the home, carrying heavy loads or completing mundane tasks, one firm in Ohio has just brought out a robot that is definitely more like The Terminator than it is Bicentennial Man.
The quadrupedal contraption - dubbed 'Thermonator' - is essentially a robotic dog equipped with a fully functional flamethrower capable of spewing out a 30ft jet of flame.
What's more, you can actually buy one for the princely sum of $9,420.
The device is apparently legal everywhere in the United States except in Maryland.
Interestingly, Throwflame doesn't actually market the robot as a weapon, instead maintaining that its main purposes include agricultural management, wildfire control and ice removal.
For many, however, it's likely that the Thermonator will be picked up as more of a toy than a tool.
The robot is actually capable of operating autonomously (which could spark some renewed debate about autonomous weapon systems), but it can also be manually controlled using a smartphone.
You can check it out in action in the video below.