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A new plasma robot can dig tunnels 100 times faster and 98% cheaper
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Earthgrid plans to re-wire grids across the U.S. at record speed and at a fraction of the cost.

The company plans to use its technology to re-wire energy, internet, and utility grids in the U.S.Unlike conventional boring machines, which typically use massive cutting wheels to slowly excavate tunnels, Earthgrid's robot blasts rocks with high temperatures to break and even vaporize them via a process called spallation.

Earthgrid is currently operating on pre-seed funding, and it is developing its"Rapid Burrowing Robot ", a spallation boring robot with several 48,600 °F plasma torches mounted on large discs.

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