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.

Crews in New Jersey are assembling a pair of custom-built machines that will dig out the first new set of Hudson River train tunnels in more than a century. Officials behind the $16 billion project, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary’s job is done. On Wednesday, the tunnel-boring machine known as Mary, responsible for digging the two new tunnels for 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...