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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 stop some PS3 shipments to Japan

    TOKYO
    Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:54am EST
    Visitors play on Sony's PlayStation 3 game console at the company's display at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo September 20, 2007. Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and 60-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing instead on the 40-GB model. REUTERS/Issei Kato

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and 60-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing instead on the 40-GB model.

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    Sony said that this does not mean the 40-GB machine will be the only model available in Japan and that it will launch new models to respond to end-user preferences sometime in the future.

    The 40-GB model, launched in November in Japan, sells for 39,980 yen ($364.5), less than the 20-GB machine's 44,980 yen.

    Prior to the announcement, shares in Sony, which competes with Nintendo Co Ltd and Microsoft Corp in the global videogame industry, closed down 1 percent at 6,130 yen.

    The Tokyo stock market's electrical machinery index IELEC. fell 1.4 percent.

    (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
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