A fool for milk

When I first read about automated cow milking machines that use machine vision, I thought it was amusing. Last year, LMI Technologies was working with GEA Farm Technologies to adapt its 3-D time-of-flight imager to the task of producing happier cows and higher yields.



Now I find that robot maker Fanuc Robotics has taken the concept of automated milking to an advanced stage with a herd-milking system that can be seen in this video. Machine vision just keeps getting more interesting.