Nearly 200 metres long and weighing over a thousand tonnes, HS2’s final tunnel boring machine is an underground factory digging a railway to Euston.

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 just under ...

A 125m-long tunnelling machine has completed excavation of the final HS2 tunnel, marking a major milestone for the £140bn rail project. The machine, named Elizabeth, broke through after 19 months ...

You might not think so at first, but a tunnel boring machine (TBM) can be fascinating in its own way. Imagine a giant machine, with an elongated shape, that digs her way under the ground, as to not ...

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 ...

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