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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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    TomTom launches new large-display product line

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    AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch car navigation device marker TomTom (TOM2.AS) is launching a new product line with large displays, the company said on Monday.

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    The new TomTom One XL range will be available from across Europe, the United States, Australia and South Africa from May 2007, the company said.

    The TomTom One XL will be priced at 349 euros ($470) for a device with regional maps and at 399 euros with maps for all of Western Europe, the company said.



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