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Rise of the Machines

Inside the Skynet ghost town built by bunker-based boffins

AnalysisBrainiacs beaver beneath barren burg called CITE

Behind the lens of NASA's self-adapting ISS space telescope

AnalysisA hunk of space glass this ain't

Billion-dollar high-tech ghost town to run itself without humans

Uninhabited 'smart city' will be boffins' playground

Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada

Gambling state lets Google spin its wheels

UK's new drivers now in safe hands... of laser-wielding robots

Credit-card chip biz promises 80m non-forgeable licences

Unemployed offered money to watch grass grow

Indolent 'Automatic Lawnmower Supervisor' sought

DARPA boffins seek Terminator-style disaster-zone rescue robot

Car-driving, tool-using tsunami-surviving android needed

Scientists plan 3D printable robots for the home

Downloadable droids for every task

Terrafugia flies first prototype: Flying cars 'within a year'

Unleaded fuel-chugging wing-mobile passes the test

Ape sanctuary seeks funds for armed Robo Bonobo

And you can talk to the animals…

Plastic that SELF-REPAIRS using light unleashed by prof

Holy Grail of materials paves way for self-healing cars

Robotics breakthrough blasts crud from that bit behind the lav

Removable-bottom bot reaches for your fiddly bits

Seafaring robots shatter unmanned crossing record

Gosling's machines plough on

Top DARPA bomb boffin in explosive move to Google

Counter-terror expert disarmed by Choc Factory's charm

Robot NIGHTMARE sets new leggy-bot speed record

VideoIt's those DARPA thrill-seekers again

Quantum computing IN OUR LIFETIME - IBM breakthrough

Big Blue boffins crack pesky unstable qubit puzzle

Google Goggle glasses ARE WATCHING YOU

Meat in the Cybernetic Sandwich

Xeroxiraptor: Boffins to print 3D robot dinosaur

Star Trek replicator-style fossil tech

Harvard boffins cause buzz with robot bee

Our new insect overlords will come in a flat pack

UK's supercomputers rev up to hit 800 teraflops

HECToR and BlueGene/Q to help look at climate data, sniff out Higgs boson

Japanese robot mirrors master’s movements

Do dat crazy Avatar dance

Boffins claim breakthrough in hovering robothopter experiments

Paper 'bugs' used subwoofer-powered wing flaps

Space: 1999 returning to TV?

Eagles and staple guns reloaded

Robot surgery gets virtual at Euro Space Agency

CAMDASS augmented reality for astronaut patch-up

iRobot Warrior-bot goes on sale this Spring

For the geek who has everything

Quarter of Wolfram Alpha brainteasers come from Siri

Apple's smart-arse software relies on boffinry website

Coke-snorting cop bots to replace sniffer dogs

Roboplod finds could count as evidence in court

Chilli crab scoffing boffins build anti-cancer claw robot

New stomach tumour busting gadget inspired by top Asian nosh

Boffins uncloak G-rated teledildonic breakthrough

Remotely kiss a cow, kiss a bunny, kiss your loneliness goodbye

Robot rabbits take on Facebook, female orgasms

Poked by a rabbit, figuratively and literally

The Pirate Bay torrents printable 3D objects

Yarr! Getting physical with small plastic models

Man vanquishes robot cop in hand-to-hand combat

Droid 'hurled through door', fleshies mete out beanbag justice

Boffins quarrel over ridding world of leap seconds

What should set the time - atomic watches or the sunrise?

X Prize: Build a Star Trek 'tricorder' and win $10m

CES 2012CATCH: It has to work...

GAGA prepares to munch some organic rug

El Reg's robot lawnmower gets a name, and a sidekick

Siri's artificially intelligent news anchor sister bags $6.2m

Funding found for DARPA-backed web sniffer Trapit

US 'space warplane' may be spying on Chinese spacelab

Is X-37B's secret mission watching Heavenly Palace?

Boffins glue self-righting ROBO-VELOCIRAPTOR tail to car

Leaping lizards inspire super stable search bots

Latest El Reg project: Rise of the Robot Sheep

Autonomous, spinning blades, made in a shed - what could go wrong?

The moment a computer crash nearly caused my car crash

Sysadmin blogEngineering mustn't succumb to 'blame the user' culture

Amateur balloonists conquer Atlantic

Mighty globe flies from Silicon Valley to the Mediterranean

Oz robo-soldiers in US Marines' firing line

Take out the dummy on the Segway, sarge!

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