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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: 0.336s | 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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Aardwolf ◴[16 Apr 25 08:03 UTC] No.43702746[source]▶
Do you think cows care about human interaction, or are indifferent whether it's a living creature or a robot?
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1. bluGill ◴[16 Apr 25 12:45 UTC] No.43704759[source]▶
Cows are herd animals and like to be in herds of 100-200. Most don't care about humans, though some enjoy pets from humans.