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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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    Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear power business

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    Thu Mar 6, 2008 1:30am EST

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    Toshiba Corp. President and CEO Atsutoshi Nishida speaks during a news conference at the Toshiba headquarters in Tokyo October 17, 2006. Toshiba said on Thursday it had launched a new company in the United States to enhance its nuclear power businesses. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer electronics giant Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Thursday it had launched a new company in the United States to enhance its nuclear power businesses.

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    Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp started operation this month and has the primary mission of marketing and promoting advanced boiling water nuclear power plants and providing support for related services.

    (Reporting by Yinka Adegoke, editing by Will Waterman)
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