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Rise of the Machines

Fire-breathing black cabs: Shock eyewitness photo

RoTM NRA operative survives TX4 ambush

26 Sep 11:02

London battles fire-breathing black cabs

RoTM TX4 uprising contained - for now

22 Sep 12:22

Intel CTO demos building blocks of shapeshifting robots

IDF When the end comes, it'll be wearing a bunny suit

21 Aug 19:40

South African survives exploding fridge attack

RoTM 'I thought the world was coming to an end'

11 Jul 12:32

Tumble dryer bites woman in Weston-super-Mare

RoTM Tin snips deployed in harrowing rescue ordeal

19 Jun 08:32

iRobot Roomba 560 robot vacuum cleaner

Review Clean quietly... or there will be... trouble

Reg Hardware 10 Jun 11:09

Scientists create Chewbotca robot muncher

Om nom nom nom 2.0

7 May 11:02

Motorised meat-smoker droid vigilante patrols Atlanta

Vagrants live in fear of the 'Bum Bot'

25 Apr 18:52

Brain-plug weapons could provide war crime immunity

Comment Lawyer spots future brainhat-slaughter atrocity loophole

23 Apr 18:42

US war robots in Iraq 'turned guns' on fleshy comrades

Kill-droid rebellion thwarted... this time

11 Apr 10:10

IBM unveils nano-projector based VirtuaHuman with 1TB of memory

April Fools It walks, talks and tweets

1 Apr 04:20

Japanese boffin designs glasses for the absent minded

Find forgotten items

Reg Hardware 14 Mar 16:24

Dutch fire up petrol-pumping robot

RoTM 'What could possibly go wrong?' wonders Reuters

5 Feb 10:48

Bugs targets Linux devices

Self assembly

7 Nov 17:35

Carnegie Mellon wins the robotic Urban Challenge

Stanford relegated to second

4 Nov 18:43

Living with robots: The $3.5m DARPA Urban Challenge

Diary of a human The race is on

3 Nov 12:23

DARPA selects 11 robotic grunts to take driver's license test

Shudder. Have you seen R2D2 parallel park?

1 Nov 20:44

Aliens responsible for Italian machine uprising

RoTM Canneto di Caronia report fingers Lizard Alliance

29 Oct 14:56

NASA extends olive branch to robots for moon mission

Robo Developer Can't we all just get along?

27 Oct 12:02

Robo Developer Conference in pictures II

Hi! Robot

27 Oct 00:41

Robot builders hunt for a killer application

Robo Developer How to sell a robot for pleasure and profit

26 Oct 03:14

Robo Development Conference in pictures

Robo Developer Know thy roboenemy

26 Oct 03:07

Cannon runs amok, kills nine fleshies

Software glitch to blame for berserker?

19 Oct 16:21

Qinetiq touts 'Transformer-like' mobility-scooter killbot

Robots in disguise... as slightly different robots

9 Oct 18:36

Droid pilots beat humans at air-to-air refuelling

Robots acquire another key human pilot skill

15 Aug 2007, 11:35

Aussies face the threat of Robo-Pacinos

Don't panic

12 Jul 2007, 18:11

Microsoft points robots toward point upgrade

Destroying human race easier than ever

9 Jul 2007, 22:49

Robot brains? Can't make 'em, can't sell 'em

Why dopes still beat boffins

28 Jun 2007, 09:02

NASA to unleash 'mind meld' intelligent machines

RoTM neoLuddite Resistance Army to Defcon 'Armageddon'

22 Jun 2007, 10:12

EU slaps 'Davros tax' on mobility scooters

RoTM Import duty contains battery-powered pensioner menace

12 Jun 2007, 12:36

Why do robot experts build such lousy robots?

We meet the nerds with the world's cleanest floors

25 May 2007, 23:19

Robot gunships join US Army

Airwolf cyber-copters ready next year

24 May 2007, 13:38

New Laws of Robotics proposed for US kill-bots

Droid-on-droid mayhem OK'd; machines to ask before snuffing humans

13 Apr 2007, 17:05

Carnivore ATM bites Florida kiddie

RoTM Firefighters battle rogue cash machine for four hours

16 Mar 2007, 09:58

Hybrid vehicle attacks petrol station

RoTM 'I could not stop the car', admits shaken victim

12 Mar 2007, 11:58

Google's job robot weeds out puny humans

'I'm sorry, I can't hire you Dave...'

3 Jan 2007, 18:34

Captain Cyborg pays homage to El Reg

The mind boggles

19 Dec 2006, 07:54

Feds pony up $3.5m for robot race

Military complex not as frugal as thought

9 Dec 2006, 02:19

Humans taste of bacon, says gourmet robot

RoTM Hmmm, delicious

10 Nov 2006, 14:03

BBC abandons science

TV And falls into singularity-shaped hole

27 Oct 2006, 21:03

Satnav orders German into toilet

RoTM Turn right, then drive up the stairs...

24 Oct 2006, 09:09

Lizard Alliance targets Turkish PM

RoTM While Germans field test pig-gutting robot

19 Oct 2006, 10:18

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