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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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    Cisco to rent out TelePresence video conference rooms

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    Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:32pm EDT

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc began renting out high-definition video conferencing rooms to the public on Wednesday, aiming to broaden the use of a system that helps executives cut back on travel.

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    Cisco said it was now renting out rooms equipped with its TelePresence high-definition video screens with built-in microphone and camera lenses for $299 to $899 an hour.

    The rooms will be available in Santa Clara, California, as well as in some Taj Hotels in India, Boston and London through a partnership with Taj Hotels and Tata Communications.

    The price depends on the size of the room, the largest of which can accommodate 18 people. Companies currently can buy TelePresence units for around $34,000 to $300,000 each.

    There will be more than 100 rooms available by the end of 2009, including in New York's Pierre Hotel, Cisco said.

    (Reporting by Ritsuko Ando; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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