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| The K5 security robot. | 
As the sun set on a warm November afternoon, a quartet of 
five-foot-tall, 300-pound shiny white robots patrolled in front of 
Building 1 on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Looking like a crew of 
slick Daleks
 imbued with the grace of Fred Astaire, they whirred quietly across the 
concrete in different directions, stopping and turning in place so as to
 avoid running into trash cans, walls, and other obstacles.
 
