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At Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando this morning, Bill Gates gave what's expected to be his last big keynote address as a full-time Microsoft executive. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer wasn't there, but at one point they brought out a stand-in. Here's the video clip of Gates, Microsoft Robotics executive Tandy Trower, and a special guest:

That clip is via Microsoft, and it cuts off before a funny line from Patrick Deegan, the University of Massachusetts Amherst student who was demonstrating the robot. Showing the robot's arm movement, Deegan said, "This makes it so that it's even able to throw eggs."

That was a reference to the infamous egg-tossing incident in Hungary a couple weeks ago. Maybe if the Ballmer Bot had been there by the real Ballmer's side, things would have gotten really interesting.

See the full video of Gates' keynote on this page.