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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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    Ubisoft buys India video game development studio

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    Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:35am EDT

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    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Ubisoft Entertainment SA (UBIP.PA), Europe's largest video games publisher, said on Tuesday it has agreed to acquire an India-based video game development studio from Gameloft (GLFT.PA).

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    The studio, which is based in Pune, India, has a team of 120 developers and testers. Ubisoft aims to raise that headcount to 200 developers in a year's time and to 500 in the coming years, it said in a statement.

    The company gave no financial details of the deal.

    (Reporting by Sophie Taylor; Editing by Edmund Klamann)



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