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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 says to beat PSP sales forecast in 2008/09

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    Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:03pm EDT
    Japanese women play PlayStation Portables (PSP) in a ''brain training'' programme in Yokohama, west of Tokyo, March 18, 2006. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it expects to beat its sales forecast for its PlayStation Portable handheld game gear for the year to March.

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    Sales of Sony's PSP would likely hit 16 million units this year, instead of its previous outlook of 15 million units, it said.

    (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
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