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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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    Singapore aquarium puts chips in fish

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    Wed May 23, 2007 11:47am EDT
    School children walk through a transparent tunnel at Underwater World, an aquarium in Singapore in a file photo. Singapore's aquarium has tagged some of its fishes using microchips to help visitors identify the different species on display. REUTERS/Stringer

    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's aquarium has tagged some of its fishes using microchips to help visitors identify the different species on display.

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    Visitors to the Underwater World aquarium can see the name, species and other information displayed on a touch screen whenever any of the 20 tagged fishes swim past a sensor, said Peter Chew, sales and marketing manager at Underwater World.

    "Gone are the days when visitors are happy looking at animals and matching them with the information on the sign boards," Chew said.

    Underwater World, which is on Singapore's Sentosa island, is the first aquarium in the world to tag its exhibit fishes with microchips using the radio frequency identification technology, Chew said.

    The aquarium, which took three months to set up the S$30,000 ($19,600) system, is also considering tagging sharks, he said.

    Those tagged include arapaima, one of the world's largest freshwater fish, and pacu, which is related to the piranha.
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