Robotic Pill for Happy, Healthy Cows

Richard Voyles, a professor in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, believes artificial intelligence and robotics could hold the key to giving dairy farmers in-depth data on the status of their herd, including illness or anxiety.

Even cows have emotions and a happy cow is a better milk producer than one under stress. But how do dairy farmers monitor the health of an individual bovine animal not known for its facial expression amongst a herd of up to 10,000?

Richard Voyles, a professor in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute is looking at the problem inside-out, using robotic pills ingested by the cows.

The robotic pills could safely connect data out to a collar on the cow which is then broadcast to a network via either cell phone or wi-fi signal. The research is funded through the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Article: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q3/want-to-keep-a-cow-happy-ai%2C-robotics-could-hold-the-answer.html

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