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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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    Nintendo, Dentsu to distribute video on Wii: Nikkei

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    Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:55pm EST
    Nintendo Co Ltd's company logo is seen at their headquarters in Kyoto, western Japan in this file photo from December 8, 2008. REUTERS/Issei Kato

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will team up with ad agency Dentsu Inc to launch a video distribution service on the Wii console, in a move to establish a new revenue stream, the Nikkei business daily said.

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    The two firms plan to offer cartoons and other entertainment programmes created for the new service to differentiate it from other online content delivery operations, which often offer existing programmes, the Nikkei said on Thursday.

    Nintendo and Dentsu will start the new service early next year in Japan, followed by overseas launches later in the year, the paper said.

    The Wii, which features a motion-sensing controller that looks like a TV remote, has been far outselling Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3.

    (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)
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