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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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    Google vows Viacom suit will not distract YouTube

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    Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:20pm EDT

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google is confident it respects the legal rights of copyright holders and will not let a $1 billion (517 million pound) lawsuit filed against by Viacom distract the company and its YouTube video-sharing unit from delivering videos, the Web search leader said on Tuesday.

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    Google spokesman Ricardo Reyes said in a statement via e-mail that: "We have not received the lawsuit but are confident that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders and believe the courts will agree".

    "We will certainly not let this suit become a distraction to the continuing growth and strong performance of YouTube," the statement said.
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