Articles by Michael Cruickshank

The Burnie Caterpillar plant produced heavy mining vehicles. Image courtesy of Flickr - 11BThunderbird

Caterpillar to outsource manufacturing to Thailand

The Bongkot South production platform, Thailand of which BG owns 22.22%

Shell announces massive takeover bid for BG

KUKA spot welding

China plans to replace people with robots in key manufacturing hub

Virginia Tech professor Percival Zhang and recent doctoral graduate Joe Rollin. Image courtesy of Virginia Tech

Hydrogen breakthrough opens road for fuel cell vehicles

ARM's new chip could be used in medical robots. Image Courtesy of Intuitive Surgical

Johnson & Johnson to build surgical robots with Google

Sir Kostya Novoselov (left, one of two graphene Nobel laureates) demonstrating the graphene lightbulb developed by the University of Manchester to Chancellor George Osborne. Image courtesy of the University of Manchester

UK scientists launch first ever graphene light bulb

Samsung is the world's largest consumer electronics company. Image cropped & courtesy of Flickr - Nan Palmero

Samsung to expand African manufacturing

The Ford SYNC 3 system has been designed to keep the drivers eyes on the road and hands on the wheel, even when controlling their favorite phone apps.

Ford Annual Report shows continued global manufacturing drive

An artist impression of a NASA astronaut visiting a captured asteroid in lunar orbit - image courtesy of NASA

NASA details ambitious asteroid capture plan

Siemens new, powerful aircraft electric motor. Image courtesy of Siemens

Siemens develops most powerful electric aircraft motor ever

3D Printed Tools Used By Volvo Trucks At Their Lyon Plant. Image Courtesy of Stratasys

Volvo trucks speed up tooling time with 3D printing