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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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    3M and Sony in optical film licensing pact

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    An employee walks near a Sony liquid crystal display (LCD) television at a showroom in Tokyo March 4, 2008. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 3M Co (MMM.N) and Sony Corp (6758.T) have agreed to a licensing deal that gives Sony the right to use certain 3M optical film technologies for use in LCD television products, the companies said on Friday.

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    In a joint statement, the companies said the licensing deal covers prismatic films for use in making liquid-crystal display panels.

    Optical films are used to make electronic displays brighter than displays without enhancement films, which results in energy savings for devices using them.

    (Reporting by Eric Auchard; Editing by Braden Reddall)
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