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 ...

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 ...

The Boring Company, the tunnel-digging venture set up to solve city traffic, is nearing the completion of its next major machine. Founder Elon Musk revealed on Tuesday that “Line-Storm,” the expected ...

The crawler-mounted "Path-Digging" Loader was used in road construction and excavation. It could move up to 100 feet per minute when relocating and 2 feet per minute when digging.George E. Haiss and ...