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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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    Sony to delay Japan launch of Skype on PSP

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    Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:58am EST

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony said on Wednesday it is delaying the planned introduction in late January of a Skype Web phone service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) users in Japan due to technical problems.

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    Skype is a unit of eBay, the world's largest online auctioneer.

    Sony's game unit said earlier this month it would start offering Skype software for downloading onto the latest PSP model, enabling PSP users to make free Web-based phone calls to other PSP users and to users of PCs equipped with Skype software.

    However, the game unit said on Wednesday a microphone it planned to start selling in Japan for the new service did not meet Skype specifications, forcing the delay.

    The Skype service on the PSP, which competes with Nintendo Co Ltd's DS handheld gear, will be starting later this month overseas as planned, since Sony is offering PSP headsets that meet Skype specifications outside Japan.

    The game unit said it was unclear when the service would become available in Japan.

    (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
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