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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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    No signs of game industry slowdown: Activision CEO

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    Thu May 8, 2008 7:25pm EDT

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    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc (ATVI.O) Chief Executive Bobby Kotick said on Thursday he sees no signs that growth in the video game industry is slowing.

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    "The video-game market fundamentals have never been stronger. There's no evidence that this growth will slow," Kotick told a conference call.

    "A lot of this growth is coming from consumers who are experiencing video games for the first time," Kotick said.

    (Reporting by Scott Hillis; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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