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How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

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225 points DonHopkins | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 22:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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unclad5968 ◴[15 Apr 25 22:49 UTC] No.43699358[source]▶
It's cool that this allows the cows to be milked whenever they feel like it. I'd imagine the autonomy actually does improve the cow's quality of life. Also neat that they learned to game the feeding robot. It reminds me of the image recognition experiments they do with birds.
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1. DonHopkins ◴[15 Apr 25 22:51 UTC] No.43699374[source]▶
And how they had to inhibit greedy cows with the munchies from volunteering to be milked too often, just to get treats!

There are certain things you just can't predict, and have to learn in the field...