How has the Astronaut or other Lely systems changed over the years in terms of technology and cow interaction?

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ttheelen · Accepted Answer

Well, technology has changed a lot since the start of the company, right after WO2. The first developped machines (hay loader, Acrobat rake, fertiliser spreader) were all drawn by horses and driven via the wheels. From the fifties onwards, the machines were tractor driven and powered directly via power take off axle of the tractor. In the sixties also the first self propelled machines were developped (combine harvester-see seperate post, pistenbully, LelyTrac-see seperate post, tractor). The first machine which worked with computer technology was of course the Astronaut in 1993. At that time the computer technology was so primitive and slow that calculating a sinus of a angle (needed for determining the teat position via triangulation), could not be calculated fast enough but needed to be looked up in a table. We now live in the are of artificial intelligence (AI). The Zeta calving detector would not possible without AI. More applications of AI can be expected!

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How has the Astronaut or other Lely systems changed over the years in terms of technology and cow interaction?

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