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17th March 2021 11:06 am 17th March 2021 11:06 am Students from Warwick University are due to travel to LA later this year to compete in the finals of a tunnelling competition set up by Elon Musk’s Boring Company. (Credit: University of Warwick) Known as Warwick Boring, the team consists of 30 students supported by industry experts and academics. They are one of 12 teams to be shortlisted for the final from nearly 400 entries to the competition. The final event will see Warwick compete ag...

Warwick students to shake up tunnelling sector with Elon Musk competition Students from Warwick University have qualified to take part in the tunnelling innovation competition organised in the US by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. The Warwick Boring team will build a prototype tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will be demonstrated and tested at The Boring Company’s Not-a-Boring competition in Los Angeles this summer. Musk launched the competition to drive up tunnelling rates and reduce the c...

Share • The Warwick Boring team are heading to LA this summer, 2021, to take part in Elon Musk’s tunnelling competition organised by The Boring Company • The team will build their own prototype tunnelling machine and demonstrate at the event in the Summer • Current tunnelling systems are 14x times slower than a snail and cost from $100m-$1bn dollars, therefore the race to make tunnels faster and cheaper is picking up A team of students called The Warwick Boring Team are heading to LA th...