Tunneling Robotic Design and Phase I Concept Considerations

The U.S. military needs tunneling robots, NASA needspropose it looked like a football and would have a gyro
tunneling robots, public works departments needinside to keep it up right. Be cutting mechanism would
tunneling robots, FEMA needs tunneling robots and sobe in the front and there would be spikes that came
does law enforcement, FBI, Border Patrol, DEA, DHSup the side which would push into the dirt and move
and The ATF. But, how come no one has ever madethe football foreword as it turned the dirt like the Viking
a good, reliable, self-contained and state-of-the-artships with oars.
tunneling robot?Of course this is a very interesting subject as there is
It seems with all the robotics competitions going on thatno right answer, as long as the tunneling robot works it
someone would have designed and built a gooddoesn't matter really what it looks like. It could be in the
tunneling robot by now. This subject recently came upshape of a snake it could be in the shape of one of
in an online think tank and one member started askingthe original Chinese firecrackers with a cone front and
questions; "Size, how large of a hole is needed? Howa cylinder side. As a matter-of-fact it doesn't really
long? What kind of maneuverability would be needed?"matter what looks like, as long as it works. Consider
What would be good tunneling robot look like? Ithis in 2006.