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Smarter dairy farms where robots milk the cows

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Lely's Astronaut A5 milking robot uses a laser-guided robot arm to clean the cow's udder before attaching teat cups.

Other robots, such as the Vector mobile robot for continuous feeding and feed pushing, further reduce labor needs.

Lely believes that robots will enable small dairy farms to continue scaling sustainably.

The cost of a milking robot can be several hundred thousand dollars , plus an additional $5,000 to $10,000 per year in operating costs.

At the end of the day , dairy farming is about people and animals.

These technologies are tools, and how farmers use them will determine the future of their farms.