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Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lely-dairy-robots

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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My wife’s cousins dairy farm has one of these robots. It’s like a big roomba that dispenses hay. The cows love that machine lol. He also has an automated cow hugger and cows like up to get squeezed by this machine. It’s pretty cool.

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay, I joked in another comment, but I have to know more about this cow-hugging machine!

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      • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.

        I don’t want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s a phone near me and they have two rotating brushes. They look like the things that wash your car in a drive in car wash, except with bristles rather than floppy mops.

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We take your milk and your child, here is a robot that hugs you.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds like paradise!!! \s \s \s jfc.

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      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re right. It’s horrible and evil and I should disavow both my wife and her cousin for participating in such a thing and burn the entire thing down and free the cows.

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  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. Go vegan if you actually care about animals

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    • NoisyFlake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For real, this has nothing to do with animal welfare. The cows still get forcefully impregnated every so often and have their calves taken away, just so you can drink their milk. Supermarkets are full of tasty plant milk variants, yet most people still see the need to let cows suffer instead.

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      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oat is GOAT

        (The acronym, not the animal)

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  • lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. Not raping and abusing them for selfish human wants makes cows happier. This is the stupidest shit ever.

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    • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I lived on a dairy farm. They are not abused like cattle for beef production. And are you saying in-fertilization is rape? Because I mean. Normal Stud mounting is far worse than an arm up ones vagina.

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    • nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      no one is raping cows

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      • lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Someone doesn’t know how dairy farms work…

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      • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Speak for yourself!

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      • jennraeross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Cows cannot consent to insemination by humans. And yet that’s what the industry runs on (as well as taking their babies from them so we can have the milk instead, causing the poor mothers severe emotional distress). It’s messed up.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No

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    • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Betteridge’s law applies. The answer to a yes-no headline question is always no.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Imagine believing that carnists profiting from torture and murder give a shit about happier cows.

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  • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There have been robots for cows for years. It‘s the SHIT PUSHER ROBOT. It‘s pushing away the straw and shit all the day. That’s useful automation imho.

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  • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn’t read the article.

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  • recall519@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t know. You tell me, headline.

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s not it’s job. It’s supposed to grab you. And hug you. Like a cow…

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  • aeharding@vger.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Anyone else watch 10th generation dairyman?

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