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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 makers name "Gears of War" best game

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    Thu Mar 8, 2007 10:22am EST
    An image from the video game ''Gears of War'' courtesy of Epic Games. The alien shooting game on Wednesday took home three honors at the Game Developers Choice Awards, winning best game as well as awards for technology and visual arts. REUTERS/Epic Games/Handout

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios' alien shooting video game "Gears of War" on Wednesday took home three honors at the Game Developers Choice Awards, winning best game as well as awards for technology and visual arts.

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    Other top winners chosen by game makers were Clover Studio and Capcom Entertainment's nature-adventure game "Okami," which won awards for character design and innovation, and Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s "Wii Sports," taking home prizes for game design and innovation.

    Separately, Bit Blot's underwater adventure game "Aquaria" took home the $20,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game, at the 2007 Independent Games Festival Awards.

    All winners were announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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