What I'm imagining is Elon creating a long skinny Tesla-style robot machine shop that takes in sensor data and sends progressively more useful robots in a queue down to the end of the mine. They take a turn and then head back in the other direction for refurbishment.
Over time generically flexible robots will tend to take up residence near the tip. Powerful motors probably stay there with a couple robots to bolt things in place and cycle through a supply of drill bits.
Eventually you can snip off a robust robot, and when it comes out the other end you can use it to seed a dig with a similar geological survey.
There's never a "product line" per se, just a fleet of tunneling robots with their own personalities.
Over time generically flexible robots will tend to take up residence near the tip. Powerful motors probably stay there with a couple robots to bolt things in place and cycle through a supply of drill bits.
Eventually you can snip off a robust robot, and when it comes out the other end you can use it to seed a dig with a similar geological survey.
There's never a "product line" per se, just a fleet of tunneling robots with their own personalities.