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.

Elon Musk asks Twitter users to help him name the digging machine for The Boring Company. His venture aims to dig tunnels under Los Angeles to help with traffic. Musk suggested the digging machine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk said his second machine for The Boring Company is "almost ready" Musk said the boring machine will be called "Line-Storm" Earlier this year, the first machine called "Godot" began digging ...

The machines that will set in motion the first new set of Hudson River train tunnels in nearly 120 years are being assembled in New Jersey.

The proliferation of attachments for skid-steer and compact track loaders makes them very versatile pieces of equipment, capable of doing a host of different tasks - including digging a trench. A ...

SEATTLE (AP) - Contractors building a new highway tunnel under downtown Seattle have started digging a 120-foot pit to rescue a stalled boring machine named Bertha. Seattle Tunnel Partners also is ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When Seattle decided to put in a new highway tunnel beneath the city, a machine was specially built to dig the 2-mile long, 57-foot wide project. The 6,700 ton machine ...