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Tux Can Even Milk Cows!

Posted by Zonk on from the i-don't-have-it-that-good dept.

GuitarNeophyte writes "If you're a cow, you want to get milked when you want to get milked. And if you were a dairy farmer, you want to make your cow happy. So what do you do? Set up a machine that gives the cow control of its milking schedule. Oh yeah, of course, it runs on Linux. It identifies the cow, then finds the udders, milks the cow, cleans it's undercarriage, and lets it go."

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  1. Re:automated accident prevention? by lintux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, actually I heard a story about this happening with a slightly different model (from a different brand). Normally, nothing would happen, because the cows all have some thing around their neck (RFID? ;-)) to identify them, and the system should know it's a bull, so it can walk through immediately.

    However, at some farm they didn't have enough ID tags, so they had the bull borrow one from another cow. The bull felt hungry, so he went to eat in the robot. The robot thought it was a female cow and started to ... errr, well, tried to milk. To make the long story short, they pretty much had to buy a completely new robot, since the bull didn't quite appreciate it. ;-)