I reported on the surveillance robot last December ( Surveillance Robot Is Touted as Security Aid (while It Eliminates Jobs ) where the item was described by boosters as being like R2D2, the little fireplug droid in Star Trek. The industry-supplied photo made it look small and unthreatening, suitable for school use because it wouldnt scare the kiddies (shown below):

However, a more realistic photo of the thing has shown up on the web, and the 300-pound machine looks large, and more menacing than cute:

The news here is that the Microsoft company has installed five of them to patrol its Silicon Valley campus (aka workplace in tech speak). The machine wont be firing photon torpedoes at thieves any time soon, but your privacy is the target: the robot is a data-sucking monster from hell, as well as a human job extinguisher.

Of course, the rapid robotization of the workplace means that America needs ZERO immigrants to become future worker bees.