There's already a prototype robot that brings cows in to be milked http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24955943
Once driverless cars are perfected, driverless tractors will be right there with them too, they will be hugely popular.
Once driverless cars are perfected, driverless tractors will be right there with them too, they will be hugely popular.
If you think about it, driverless tractors are a much easier problem than driving a car.
Long-term, that is a dead end. The thing is, you don't have to bring in your cows, and certainly not all at the same time, if you have a milking robot. They will come in by themselves if they want to be milked.
Also, I find it curious that this is news. Milking robots have been used for decades (since the early 1990's)
Economically, we have about reached the point where the robot is economically feasible (a robot increases milk production, but costs money, both in investments and in electricity. It's not a given that the increase in milk production pays for the extra costs)
Where I live they grow a lot of pea's and the period between "ready to harvest" and "pig food" is pretty short, it's a spectacular sight at night watching them go up and down the hills near here in the dark (always reminds me of War of the Worlds as they have rotating spotlights) harvesting.