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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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    Nokia denies plans phone running Google's Android

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    Mon Jul 6, 2009 8:34am EDT
    A customer looks at a mobile phone display at Nokia's flagship store in Helsinki August 16, 2007. REUTERS/Bob Strong

    TALLINN (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it was not working on introducing a phone running on Google's Android operating system.

    British daily The Guardian said on Monday the Finnish mobile phone maker was understood by industry insiders to be developing a smartphone that runs on Google's Android software, to be introduced in September.

    "Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever," said a Nokia spokesman.

    Google's Android is a rival to Nokia's Symbian software.

    "Everyone knows that Symbian is our preferred platform for advanced mobile devices."

    Google's Android has got a lot of traction in the cellphone industry, with many vendors planning to introduce phones using it, but so far only a few Android phones have reached consumers.


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