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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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    Film studios seek damages from Chinese online firm

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    Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:39am EST

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Six U.S. film studios have filed civil complaints against Chinese file-sharing firm Xunlei Networking Technology Co Ltd, part-owned by Google Inc, for copyright infringement and are seeking more than 7 million yuan ($1 million) in damages and costs, the Motion Picture Association said.

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    MPA, a trade group, said in a statement on Friday that the plaintiffs were also seeking a public acknowledgement of the infringements as well as a pledge from Xunlei to refrain from future infringements.

    A representative for Xunlei could not be reached for comment.

    MPA said that Xunlei facilitated the unauthorised transmission of hundreds of Hollywood movies produced by its members, including "Spiderman 3," "War of the Worlds" and "Miami Vice."

    Google said at the beginning of 2007 that it had bought a stake in Shenzhen-based Xunlei, but declined to disclose the size of the stake or financial details of the deal.

    ($1=7.180 Yuan)

    (Reporting by Sophie Taylor; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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