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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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    Yamaha hooks up piano to Web -- for $35,000

    Antony Bruno
    Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:38am EST
    A pianist plays on a baby grand piano at the Savoy Hotel in central London, December 17, 2007. REUTERS/Toby Melville

    DENVER (Billboard) - First the radio replaced the piano. Now, the piano is getting its revenge.

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    Yamaha's Disklavier is an Internet-connected piano that, with its DisklavierRadio service, streams Internet radio stations suited specifically for the piano -- such as classical and jazz -- for a subscription fee of $20 per month. A new service called DisklavierMusicStore allows users to download permanent music files to the piano's built-in 80 GB hard drive.

    Users can access either the streaming or downloadable music to teach themselves to play the instrument by playing along in synch with the tunes, or just let it play itself like a player piano. A high-speed Internet connection is required. Users can control the piano and schedule downloads via a Wi-Fi-connected remote control.

    The Disklavier is available at Yamaha dealerships nationwide or via the company's Web site for $35,000.

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