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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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    LG Electronics says to buy LCD panels from Sharp

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    Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:12am EDT

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    LG Electronics' LCD televisions are displayed at a store in Seoul January 23, 2007. LG Electronics said on Wednesday it plans to buy 32-inch and 52-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) panels from Japan's Sharp Corp in order to satisfy surging demand for flat screen TVs. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Electronics (066570.KS) said on Wednesday it plans to buy 32-inch and 52-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) panels from Japan's Sharp Corp (6753.T) in order to satisfy surging demand for flat screen TVs.

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    "We are buying about 2 million 32-inch panels from Sharp," a spokesman for LG Electronics told Reuters. He declined to specify the number of 52-inch panels to be purchased from Sharp along with the value of the deal.

    LG procures LCD panels mainly from LG Display (034220.KS), its LCD joint venture with Dutch Philips (PHG.AS) and from Taiwanese makers, but needed more screens to satisfy its LCD TV sales target of 14 million units, the spokesman said.

    (Reporting by Marie-France Han, editing by Keiron Henderson)
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