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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: 0.216s | source
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stickfigure ◴[16 Apr 25 01:55 UTC] No.43700589[source]▶
Super interesting read! But also feels a bit like a paid advertisement. You'd think that an article about robot farms would mention more than one brand of robot? Guessing this is the submarine at work:

https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

It makes me wonder what the author isn't mentioning. Do they have bugs that take the whole farm down? If the internet goes out, do the machines start acting weird? I'm not a luddite, I love the idea of a robot farm, I just want a complete story.

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1. aucisson_masque ◴[16 Apr 25 08:59 UTC] No.43703123[source]▶
Indeed, it reads as an advertisement.

No downsight at all even though it has big flaws. The constant alarm, sometimes when sleeping because something got stuck, the maintenance price, cost of certified technicians.

Nothing about the price and ROI.

Nothing about the farmers who bought them and their experience years later, a considerable part would not buy it again and instead just come back to build a parlor and milking 2 times a day.

As you pointed, nothing about other brand.

All sunshine and rainbows..

If it's journalism, it's bad one.