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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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    Japan Communications plans Net cellphone: source

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    Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:36am EDT

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    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese wireless data communications provider Japan Communications Inc (9424.OJ) plans to launch Internet mobile phones as early as July, a source with detailed knowledge of the matter said on Monday.

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    The provider is considering charging a fixed monthly rate for its mobile phone service but not charging extra for users who make calls via Internet networks, the source said.

    Shares of J-Com, which uses NTT DoCoMo Inc's (9437.T) network, were bid up at their daily limit amid a glut of buy orders.

    The Nikkei business daily reported earlier that J-Com would launch the world's first Internet Protocol mobile phones in the July-September quarter.

    J-Com's move is a new twist in the country's saturated mobile phone market, where DoCoMo and rivals KDDI Corp (9433.T) and Softbank Corp (9984.T) have been slashing prices in a fierce battle for market share.

    (Reporting by Mayumi Negishi)
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