Boring Machines — More Interesting than You Might Think

OK, the name really sold us. But this is also a remarkable piece of machinery–like the lovechild of one those fighting robots that teams of college engineers design and the giant worm that Kyle McLaughlin rode (he did ride it, didn’t he?) in Dune. The particular model in the video is 1,400 feet long and was built to excavate the world’s longest railway tunnel, a 34-mile job in the Swiss Alps.