By rosebell
On July 23 UK infratech company hyperTunnel, which used swarm robotics in a new approach to tunneling, has gone into administration, whereas HyperTunnel Ltd and hyperTunnel Holdings were placed into administration and Opus LLP was appointed as the administrator.
Being commissioned by Steve Jordan and Jeremy Hammond in 2018, hyperTunnel used proven technologies from other industries and intended to develop a new approach to building tunnels and underground schemes that was faster, safer, lower cost and more sustainable than current techniques.
The exclusive distributor licensing agreements was launched in 2022 by hyperTunnel and in October last year they concluded an agreement with AmcoGiffen.
As a pedestrian-scale tunnel constructed and a part of a research project for Network Rail, the world’s first robot-built tunnel was revealed by this company in October 2022.
The date of awarding a project to build an underpass trialling hyperTunnel’s technology funding from Europe’s first purpose-build rail innovation facility was March 2023, while the £25,000 grant from the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) in Wales would fund a feasibility study into building an underpass at GCRE using hyperTunnel’s approach.
