Tesla Gigafactory Texas | 3-25-24 | night shift + Boring Co. operations @tesla #PRUFROCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOR7zZN0Hls

@Prufrock is designed to “porpoise,” meaning it launches directly from the surface, mines underground, and re-emerges upon completion. This allows Prufrock to begin tunneling within 48 hours of arrival onsite and eliminates the need to excavate expensive pits to launch and retrieve the machine.

#Prufrock is designed to tunnel at a speed greater than 1 mile per week, which is 6 times faster than The Boring Company's previous generation TBM (Godot+). This is still 4-5 times slower than a garden snail...but Prufrock is catching up!

Prufrock’s medium-term goal is to exceed 1/10 of human walking speed, which is 7 miles per day.

https://www.boringcompany.com/prufrock