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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Dad" Hill was known in Raceland 70 years ago as a successful corn farmer, but a story in the Dec. 30, 1937, Lafourche Comet revealed him to be the inventor of internationally popular ditch-digging ...

SEATTLE – The 900,000-pound machine that started boring a gargantuan sewage and stormwater tunnel under Seattle in 2021 at last burst into the open this month, completing its rocky 2.7-mile route in ...