Robots for Cows (and Their Humans): Everyone's Happier When Robots Handle Milking, Feeding, and Ear Scritching

IF 2.4 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991972

Evan Ackerman

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Abstract

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 the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs doesn't seem especially worried, though—the several hundred cows in this barn are being well cared for by a small fleet of fully autonomous robots, and the farmer might not be back for hours. The robots will let him know if anything goes wrong.

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奶牛（和它们的主人）的机器人：当机器人处理挤奶、喂食和搔耳朵时，每个人都更快乐

如你所料，这个牛棚里全是奶牛。奶牛被挤牛奶，奶牛被喂食，奶牛被清理干净，一些非常高兴的奶牛甚至被用力抓着耳朵后面。“我想知道农民在哪里，”我的向导简·雅各布斯（Jan Jacobs）说。不过，雅各布斯似乎并不是特别担心——谷仓里的几百头奶牛正由一小队全自动机器人照顾得很好，农场主可能几个小时后才会回来。如果出了什么问题，机器人会通知他。

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来源期刊

IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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