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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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    Global flat TV demand to double by 2012: Japan group

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    Attendees look at a 108-inch LCD television during the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 8, 2007. Demand for flat panel televisions is expected to more than double to 180 million units by 2012, driven by strong sales in China and the United States, a Japanese industry group said. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Demand for flat panel televisions is expected to more than double to 180 million units by 2012, driven by strong sales in China and the United States, a Japanese industry group said.

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    Demand for liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs is likely to reach 155 million units in five years, up from 74.8 million sold in 2007, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association (JEITA) said on Thursday.

    Demand for plasma TVs will likely total 25 million units in 2012, compared with 11.4 million sold last year, it said.

    The forecasts are based on expected demand from 51 nations, but they should represent the majority of global demand since all major countries are included in the study, a JEITA spokesman said.

    South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and Sony Corp (6758.T) lead the LCD TV market, while Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd (6752.T) controls one-third of the plasma TV market.

    (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
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