Swarms of robots to cut costs and risk in tunnelling 

 

An innovative tunnelling system based on swarms of robots building linings from within a ring of horizontal boreholes was unveiled at the British Tunnelling Society conference last year. Mike King, BTS committee member and hyperTunnel technical board member, explains the benefits.

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