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This has, for some time, been a conundrum that's wafted around my inner workings.

If robots are so clever -- and some surely are -- they can protect us from all sorts of nefarious threats and intrusions. From other robots, for example.

So when I first heard that a company called Knightscope had created security robots that patrolled buildings, I was unnaturally moved.

How would the local, inferior humans react? I learned this quickly when a human was accused of assaulting one of these things at the company's own offices in Mountain View, California.

Yet I continued to get emails from the company, as its business apparently flourished. Even when one of its security robots fell into a shopping mall fountain.

Recently, though, I heard that a local company -- one at which many customers are irate -- had hired one of Knightscope's rolling software sheriffs.

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