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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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    Video game sales rise 28 percent in July

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    SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware, software and accessories rose 28 percent in July from a year earlier, boosted by continued strong demand for Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii console, according to data from research firm NPD on Thursday.

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    Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 outsold Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Xbox 360 game console in July, selling 224,900 PS3 versus 204,800 Xbox 360 machines in the United States. The Wii outsold both systems combined, tallying 555,000 units sold during the month.

    The top selling game in July was Electronic Arts' (ERTS.O) "NCAA Football 09," which debuted during the month. It sold nearly 400,000 units in the United States.

    (Reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi)
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