A team from Hunan University in central China has collaboratively developed an intelligent operating system for tunnel boring ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A chronicle of an engineering marvel and the challenges that almost brought it to ruin. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawing their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three. A ...

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 ...

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One big reason contractors attend CONEXPO/CON-AGG every three years is to see what’s now and what’s next. In the telehandler, crane and material handling space, there was no shortage of new equipment ...