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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 CEO says "Nice to be working with Yahoo"

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    Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:53pm EDT

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's top executive said on Thursday the company was excited to be testing out a partnership to run at least some of rival Yahoo Inc's Web search advertising sales.

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    But Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stopped short of characterizing how far negotiations with Yahoo had gone or how likely they were to lead to an actual business partnership.

    Instead, Schimdt had nothing but kind words to say about Yahoo -- Google's erstwhile rival recently turned potential business partner -- during a conference call with investors following the company's first-quarter results.

    "It's nice working with Yahoo and we like them very much," Schmidt said of Google's feelings towards its crosstown rival.

    He declined to comment further on its ties to Yahoo, which has been seeking to find alternative partners to strengthen its hand in negotiations with Google archrival Microsoft Corp on the software giant's takeover offer for Yahoo.

    (Reporting by Eric Auchard; Editing by Braden Reddall)
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