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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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    Ubisoft to open Toronto studio

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    Mon Jul 6, 2009 3:27pm EDT
    Visitors walk past the Ubisoft booth at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles June 2, 2009. REUTERS/Phil McCarten

    TORONTO (Reuters) - French videogame maker Ubisoft Entertainment SA is set to open a Toronto studio that will create 800 jobs over 10 years, the Ontario government said on Monday.

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    The Canadian province said in a statement it will invest C$263 million ($227 million) over 10 years in the company. It added that Ubisoft will invest over half a billion in the video game studio, expected to open later this year.

    Ontario, Canada's manufacturing heartland, has been losing jobs in the midst of the nagging global economic downturn.

    The announcement comes just one month after data showed Canada's unemployment rate hit an 11-year high in May as the recession resulted in big layoffs. The unemployment rate in Toronto was 9.3 percent in May.

    ($1=$1.16 Canadian)

    (Reporting by Frank Pingue; Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson)
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