Milk quality in automatic milking systems (AMS) – Challenges
The production of high-quality milk and keeping the herd in good health are the main objectives in primary milk production. An automatic milking system...
History of automatic milking systems (AMS) – Timeline
We have been milking cows for thousands of years. Farmers used their hands and a bucket during the earliest days of milking while kneeling...
Combating food waste with AI and Machine Learning: A technological solution
Food waste is a pressing global concern, with significant economic, environmental, and social implications. Roughly one-third of all food produced for human consumption is...
How precision agriculture is transforming modern farming
Precision agriculture is the management and use of technology and data from one or more of the following sources: soils, crops, nutrients, pests, moisture,...
Key benefits of using industrial robots in food manufacturing
The earlier use of robots in the food industry, controlled by strict health & safety regulations, was limited to packaging and palletizing in dairy,...
Automatic milking systems (AMS) – What they CAN and CANNOT do!
The automatic milking system (AMS) represents a revolutionary innovation in dairy farming that replaces the physical labor needed to harvest milk and influences the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) – The future of the food service industry
The food service industry is not an exception to how digital disruption has affected nearly every sector, from financial services to healthcare. To stay...
Potentials and bottlenecks of using drones in agriculture
Drones have the potential to modernize the way we do agriculture. The use of drones in agriculture is already widespread worldwide for numerous applications,...
The impact of regulations on drones (UAS) in agriculture
Aircraft have been in use for agriculture for decades, since the 1920s. But they were expensive to fly or hire, and the local hindrances...
How the use of drones radically transforms agriculture
Drones are remote-controlled or GPS-driven aerial vehicles that can be operated for various agricultural applications, including aerial crop monitoring, pesticide spraying, seed distribution, and...
The use of autonomous robots in weed management and control
Weed control is one of the long-standing issues in agriculture. Traditionally, the uniform application of herbicides has been the method to remove the weed....
7 robotic applications upgrading food packaging processes
Robots are taking food packaging into the future with streamlined, high-efficiency processes that deliver on quality. Robotics is taking on important roles in this...
