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 ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Two tunnel-digging machines that will bore through the ground to create a path for the Metro Purple Line subway under Wilshire Boulevard were unveiled today. The tunnel-boring ...

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 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 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 ...

Work to begin digging a new Hudson Tunnel is set to begin this spring as two tunnel boring machines custom-built for the project are on their way to New Jersey. The new rail tunnel, called the Gateway ...

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 ...

Click to viewSometimes we forget that diggers are more than just utilitarian machines. Inside their steel body beats a heart filled with passion…and lust. Behold the grace and beauty of the ...

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 ...