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 ...

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has updated its Dig Assist machine control application for excavators with new features designed to make it even faster and easier to create plans and put more ...

"Dad" Hill was known in Raceland 70 years ago as a successful corn farmer, but a story in the Dec. 30, 1937, Lafourche Comet revealed him to be the inventor of internationally popular ditch-digging ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary’s job is done. On Wednesday, the tunnel-boring machine known as Mary, responsible for digging the two new tunnels for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, completed the second and final leg ...

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 ...