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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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    Technical hitch scrubs Ariane rocket launch

    PARIS
    Fri May 30, 2008 4:33pm EDT

    PARIS (Reuters) - A technical hitch scrubbed the launch of an Ariane rocket carrying a British military satellite and a Turkish telecoms satellite hours before its scheduled blastoff, the Arianespace rocket launch company said on Friday.

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    "During final pre-launch checks for the Ariane 5 ECA's mission with Skynet 5C and Turksat 3A, the result of a launcher software test was not nominal," the company said in a statement issued from its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America.

    "Therefore, Arianespace has decided to stop the launch countdown," it said.

    The company said a new launch date would be announced "as soon as possible."

    The Ariane-5 rocket was to have launched Skynet 5C for Britain's ministry of Defense and Turksat 3A for Turkish telecoms operator Turksat.

    ((Editing by Matthew Jones)
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