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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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    Google's UK homepage gets royal makeover

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    Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:16am EDT

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    Google doodles the Queen

    Thu, Oct 16 2008

    LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc received the royal seal of approval on Thursday when it added a picture of the Queen to the logo on its British homepage to mark her visit to its London offices on Thursday.

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    The image, known as a Google Doodle, shows the Queen in profile and a golden crown above the letter E of Google.

    The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will tour the Internet search giant's British headquarters, a short walk from Buckingham Palace in central London.

    The royal party will meet Google executives and hear about the company's search engine, advertising and mobile phone technology. They will also learn how Google Earth, an online map, is being used to help save the Amazon rainforest.

    The Queen will then be invited to upload a video to the royal family's official channel on YouTube, the video-sharing site owned by Google. The address is www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel.

    (Reporting by Peter Griffiths; editing by Steve Addison)
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