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 ...

Jan Jacobs is the human-robot interaction design lead for Lely, a maker of agricultural machinery. Founded in 1948 in Maassluis, Netherlands, Lely deployed its first Astronaut milking robot in the ...

Running a dairy farm used to be a rather hands-on experience, with the farmer required to be around every few hours to milk the cows, feed them, do all the veterinarian tasks that the farmer can do ...

At the Future Farm Days event held at Lely Headquarters in the Netherlands on Tuesday, Lely proudly launched three exciting solutions. Both the Astronaut A5 Next and Astronaut Max build on the success ...

CRESTON, Neb. (KOLN) - At Larson Farms Inc., about 240 cows eat, rest and stand in line to be milked in a barn that is ran almost entirely by robots. The dairy operation is the fourth farm in Nebraska ...

PLAINVIEW, Minn. — Robotic milking may be the future of dairy farming but it won't make dairy farming easy. “We’ve been through some really tough times,” said Chad Schumacher, operator of Schumacher ...

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