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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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    Telecom group OTE may sue Siemens

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    Fri May 30, 2008 1:43pm EDT

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    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - OTE (OTEr.AT), Greece's largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), may sue Siemens (SIEGn.DE) for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.

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    OTE has contacted lawyers in Germany and Greece to examine and prepare all necessary steps, which include a claim for damages, the paper said in a preview of an article to be published on Saturday, quoting OTE.

    Siemens was not immediately available for comment.

    Earlier this week, former Siemens manager Reinhardt Siekaczek told a court that he had been asked by superiors to construct a slush-fund network to disguise payments to foreign telecoms companies after such bribes became illegal in Germany in 1998.

    Such payments may have helped Siemens' telecoms equipment division -- of which OTE was a major customer -- win contracts against rivals such as Cisco (CSCO.O), Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Ericsson (ERICb.ST).

    (Reporting by Eva Kuehnen; Editing by Quentin Bryar)
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