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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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    Synaptics wins deal for first Android phone

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    Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:13pm EDT

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    HELSINKI (Reuters) - U.S. technology company Synaptics (SYNA.O) has won a deal to provide touchscreen sensors and chips for the first phone model using Google's (GOOG.O) Android software, a Synaptics spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

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    T-Mobile (DTEGn.DE) and HTC Corp (2498.TW) on Tuesday unveiled the G1 phone, which has a touch-sensitive screen, a computer-like keyboard and Wi-Fi connections.

    (Reporting by Tarmo Virki; editing by Carol Bishopric)



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