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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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    Sony to expand PSP video download service

    LEIPZIG, Germany
    Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:13pm EDT

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    LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Sony (6758.T) is in talks to expand a planned video download service for its handheld PlayStation Portable games console from Britain and Ireland to other countries, an executive said on Thursday.

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    Sony and Britain's Sky (BSY.L) are due to launch a service early next year that will allow PSP owners to download sports programs, movies and other TV shows to their handheld games console and watch it on the go.

    David Reeves, head of Sony's European games unit, told Reuters that the company was currently in talks to expand the service to four other countries.

    He did not say which countries, but named a number which had "content aggregators" of a similar caliber as Sky.

    "There are other content aggregators ... certainly in Germany, in France, also in Italy, Russia even, Scandinavia certainly and the Netherlands," he said.
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