DiscoverThe Next WebThis robot worm digs for geothermal energy in your backyard
This robot worm digs for geothermal energy in your backyard

This robot worm digs for geothermal energy in your backyard

Update: 2025-01-17
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Four billion years ago, Earth was a fiery, tumultuous world of molten rock, volcanic eruptions, and toxic skies, with searing heat and the constant threat of asteroid impacts. Thankfully, our planet has cooled off a bit since then. Nevertheless, the Earth still radiates vast amounts of geothermal energy. It’s a clean, limitless, always-on power source lying beneath our feet — we just have to dig for it. Or get robots to do the hard work for us.  Borobotics, a startup from Switzerland, has developed an autonomous drilling machine — dubbed the “world’s most powerful worm” — that promises to make…

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This robot worm digs for geothermal energy in your backyard

This robot worm digs for geothermal energy in your backyard

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