The Boring Company has announced the start of the 2023 Not-A-Boring Tunneling Competition. The competition brings together the most promising student engineering teams from around the world, who will compete in four categories.
Created by Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, The Boring Company (TBC) creates safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels. TBC’s mission is to solve traffic, enable rapid point-to-point transportation and transform cities.
In September 2021, TBC hosted the first Not-a-Boring Competition which challenged engineers to build tunneling machines in an effort to accelerate innovation in tunneling technology. Talented teams from around the world answered the call and demonstrated innovative tunneling technology.
This year, TBC is again inviting teams to design, build, and race their own tunneling machines at TBC’s factory in Texas. The company has already selected five of this year’s finalists, who hail from four different countries. This demonstrated the global scope of the problem and the desire of people from different countries to solve it. The 2023 finalists included CU Hyperloop, Swissloop Tunneling, The Diggeridoos, TUM Boring, and Warwick Boring.
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