Milking robot
Robot de ordeño
- Date
- 1992 · confidence high
- Place
- Lely, Maassluis, Netherlands
- Credited to
- Lely (Astronaut, 1992); Prolion (Netherlands)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
System in which the cow voluntarily enters a stall where a robotic arm locates the udder with a laser and milks it. It freed farmers from milking schedules and generated data on every animal.
What it led to
- Precision livestock farming and individual animal monitoring
- Automated farms and rural depopulation with less labour
- Agricultural harvesting robots
Built on
- Electric articulated robot arm (Stanford Arm, PUMA)1969-1978
- laser sensors
- mechanical milking machine
Made possible
- precision livestock farming
- harvesting robots