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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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    LG to build solar cell lines in old plasma panel plant

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    Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:43am EDT

    SEOUL (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc said on Tuesday it would set up two solar cell production lines at the site of its suspended plasma panel plant, as the company seeks to find a new growth engine in the renewable energy business.

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    LG, which acquired a solar cell business from LG Chem Ltd in June, said it would spend 220 billion won ($168 million) on the two solar cell lines, which will start mass production in early 2010 and early 2011, respectively.

    Both lines will produce crystalline silicon solar cells and modules with a capacity of 120MW each, LG said in a statement.

    Mobile phone and appliance maker LG shut down one of its three plasma display panel (PDP) lines in 2007 as the business struggles with falling TV screen prices and competition with liquid crystal displays.

    At 10:48 p.m. EDT, LG shares were up 0.82 percent at 97,900 won in the flat broader market.

    ($1=1308.0 Won)

    (Reporting by Rhee So-eui; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)
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