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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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    France Telecom denies Google talks about handset

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    PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom on Tuesday denied being in talks with Google about introducing handsets fitted with the U.S. Web search leader's software systems.

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    "We formally deny being in talks with Google about a handset," said a spokesman for France Telecom, which mainly trades as Orange.

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