That old metal-backed iPhone rumor just won't die, apparently. A new report says Apple is planning to bring more metal and a new case construction to its next iPhone

Facebook is often criticised - but a similar robot social network could help them communicate with us.

Being a robot just got a little bit more sociable, now that droids have their own social network. At MyRobots.com, which launched today, robot owners can sign-up their automatons, create profiles for them - even include a photo and a name - and then leave them to update their own status. This might be a simple temperature reading - or the results of a clever face-recognition algorithm.

"You can see MyRobots.com as the Facebook for robots and smart objects," says project co-ordinator Carlos Asmat of Montreal, Canada. Like Facebook, signing up is free, although that may change in the future.

A body-tracking camera system built into Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor will help calculate astronauts' weight in microgravity