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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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    Samsung rules out Motorola mobile unit buy

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    SEOUL (Reuters) - The head of the mobile phone unit at Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) ruled out acquiring Motorola's (MOT.N) handset business, saying Samsung has little to gain from the combination, Yonhap News reported on Tuesday.

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    Choi Gee-sung, president of Samsung's telecommunications unit, said the Motorola unit was not likely to make a good "supplement" for the South Korean technology giant, according to Yonhap.

    "There are many overlapping areas and little to gain," Choi said. "We'd better not go into this kind of M&A."

    Choi was speaking on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

    Motorola Inc, which lost the No. 2 mobile phone maker title to Samsung last year, said in January it was considering separating its mobile devices unit, which analysts value at $9 billion-$12 billion.

    Analysts said the unit could potentially draw interest from electronics makers around the world from Dell Inc (DELL.O) to Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL.

    Motorola chief executive Greg Brown said on Monday the company is "fully committed" to the mobile phone business, but analysts say options including a sale remain open.

    (Reporting by Rhee So-eui; Editing by Keiron Henderson)
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