Kato Milk Farm Using Robots to Milk Cows

Robots are doing many things for us already. On Kato Milk Farm, they are being used to milk cows. The challenge was to find people to work at a dairy farm. These robots can address that. Food is used to entice cows into the robot. The machine recognizes the cow, searches for its udders, and uses 4 arms to milk the animal.

The robot costs $200,000 but pays for itself in the long run. In the past, it took 9 hours to milk around 100 cows. The machine can do the job in 3 hours.

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