A Lanarkshire dairy family’s shift to robotic milking has boosted yields, improved cow welfare, and secured their farm’s future.

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Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

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Afimilk’s Synergy robots use 3D vision, micro-optics, micro-electronics, algorithms for spatial identification, and machine learning to do the job. Afimilk has been disrupting the dairy industry since ...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

Dairy farmer Rodney Elliott stands in a small room where part of his $12 million robotic milking system is doing its job. The robotic system is located inside a huge new barn on Elliott’s farm ...

Darleen Sichley checks cow information in the robot room of a milking station at Abiqua Acres Dairy. The Silverton, Ore., family farm converted to a robotic system two years ago. When it comes to ...

DEARING - For the Holstein dairy cows at Hillcrest Farms, life is like living in a spa, thanks to the robotics installed less than a year ago. The black-and-white beauties wander at will under ...

The arm reaching for the milk-laden udders of the cow is not human. It’s the arm of a robot, metallic and shiny, gliding along the cow’s belly, then calibrating back and forth before lifting rubbery ...