A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables, dig up and detonate underwater mines, or anchor machines to the seafloor, researchers say. The ...

Mary’s job is done. On Wednesday, the tunnel-boring machine known as Mary, responsible for digging the two new tunnels for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, completed the second and final leg ...

Elon Musk’s oddball underground tunneling venture, the Boring Company, just completed a major milestone. Musk posted a video on Twitter showing the gigantic tunneling machine breaking through the ...

The Boring Company is on the lookout for new talent. The company posted on Twitter Thursday that it’s looking for people in 11 positions, including engineers, project managers, safety experts and more ...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is currently developing more advanced tunnel digging technology for its upcoming new mass-transit projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Maryland. Now the company is teasing ...

CRENSHAW, Calif. (KABC) -- Metro officials brought in a giant tunnel-boring machine on Monday to help complete the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. The strong winds derailed plans to lower the machine ...

A wide range of available attachments give excavators the versatility to accomplish virtually any task associated with a trenching application, including digging, lifting, placing and more. Following ...

Spider 2 navigates by sound waves and has articulated walking gear from alpine forestry machine. (Images courtesy of Norsk Hydro) Building a route for pipelines and service cables down a narrow ...

Digging tunnels has become easier and safer thanks to custom-designed tunnel-boring machines. Tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) could be the ultimate power tool. They're monstrous, weighing millions of ...