Thomson Industries-Sponsored Team Competes in Musk's Not-a-Boring Competition
WOOD DALE, IL—Linear motion control manufacturer Thomson Industries Inc., recently sponsored the Dirt-Torpedo, a device built by DHBW Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University students, that competed in Elon Musk's "Not-a-Boring Competition" for tunnel building last month. The Dirt-Torpedo uses CANopen drives from Thomson in three propulsion systems.
Nearly 400 teams applied for the event but only 12 competed in the finals, which were held late in September at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Its boring team was the overall winner of the inaugural competition.