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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness.   REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Nokia unveils two handsets

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    Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:24am EST

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    HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's largest cell phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) unveiled two new handsets on Tuesday, the 2600 classic and the 1209, it said.

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    Nokia said the 2600 classic would retail at about 65 euros ($94) before taxes and subsidies and had begun shipping in the first quarter.

    The Nokia 1209 would begin shipping during the second quarter at a retail price of 35 euros.

    (Reporting by Sami Torma; Editing by Quentin Bryar)



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