If a snail took two years to go three miles, the other snails might laugh at him. But considering where these particular three miles are, 23 months doesn't seem all that slow. At a construction site ...

Engineers have done some pretty remarkable things in the past 200 years. But some of the most exciting have taken place entirely underground. From the digging of the NYC subway system to the Yucca ...

Researchers from MIT in Cambridge, Mass., test the RoboClam, a robotic digger that was inspired by the burrowing abilities of Atlantic razor clams. A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or ...

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 ...

What does the biggest digging machine in the world have to do with the Singularity? The Bagger 288 represents a masterful symphony of cutting-edge technology, brought together by the best minds of ...

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 ...