Multiple photos of the machine appeared on social media Thursday, and though Musk himself remained silent, it's quite obvious that we'll soon hear about The Boring Company's next endeavors. Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories?
Billionaire innovatorElon Muskis known for his California rocket and electric car businesses, but he looked to the Midwest to show he is serious about building an ultra-high-speed underground rail system from New York to Washington, D.C. In pursuit of a massive tunnel boring machine to in...
But this is no joke.According toWired, Musk started testing these boring activities in late January at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. "We're just going to figure out what it takes to improve tunneling speed by, I think, somewhere between 500 and 1,000 percent," Musk said, adding th...
Work on The Boring Company's first "Hawthorne test tunnel" began in mid-2017. It runs the SpaceX headquarters (another Musk-founded company) and follows Hawthorne's 120th St. for about two miles. Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up...
Cutterhead in operation at standard industry speed. Planning to jack this up by a factor of ten or more. A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) onMay 12, 2017 at 5:35am PDT This video shows off the very front of Musk’s tunnel-boring machine, known as the cutterhead. Musk has sai...
Helped launch The Boring Company, a tunneling venture that hopes to alleviate urban congestion and allow for high-speed, long-distance travel. CEO of Neuralink, which is working to develop interfaces that allow the human brain to be connected to computers. ...
Musk hopes to dramatically speed up digging by inventingnew tunnel-boring-machine technologythat could slash billions from a major project. Tunneling is big business. In the U.S. and Canada alone, there are about 60 major tunnel projects in the planning or design phase totaling more than 1.8 ...
byTeslaratiphotographers Pauline Acalin and Tom Cross indicate that the Boring Company is moving fast to complete its futuristicgarage-elevator concept, while constructing what appears to be a gantry for the tunnel boring machine it would use for its high-profile high-speed tunnel project in ...
And Starlink and another company called The Boring Company and Neuralink. I mean, he has a whole empire of things. It doesn’t seem to stop him from pushing them ahead at breakneck speed. So I think that respect for him as a business leader is utterly undiluted, undiminished. And that ...
Prufrock is a tunneling machine designed to dig at a greater speed than a traditional excavating machine and without a need to excavate to set up and retrieve the machine.13 Can You Still Buy a Not-A-Flamethrower From The Boring Company?