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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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    January video game sales hit $1.18 billion

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    Customers wait in line to purchase Microsoft's Xbox video game Halo 3 at an electronics store in Bellevue Washington, September 25, 2007. REUTERS/Robert Sorbo

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software were $1.18 billion in January, down 6 percent from a year earlier, with Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii console once again outselling its rivals.

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    The decline in overall sales was partly due to January 2008 covering a 4-week period, compared with a 5-week period for the same month a year ago.

    During the month, Nintendo sold 274,000 Wiis, Sony Corp (6758.T) sold 269,000 PlayStation 3 machines and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) sold 230,000 Xbox 360 consoles, NPD said.

    The top-selling game for a single console was the Xbox 360 version of Activision Inc's (ATVI.O) military shooting title "Call of Duty 4", which sold nearly 331,000 copies, NPD said.

    (Reporting by Scott Hillis)
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