A study on milking robot system in stanchion stall barn
2005
Hachiya, M.(Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Inst., Saitama (Japan)) | Hirata, A. | Ichito, K. | Furuyama, T. | Fukumori, I.
The development of automatic cluster attachment was a real challenging step. From the end of the eighties to the beginning of the nineties, a series of cluster attachment principles was exploited in several research institutes and companies in Europe. The first milking robots were installed in commercial dairy farms in the Netherlands in 1992. The breakthrough of automatic milking came at the end of the nineties. At the end of 2001, over 1,100 farms world-wide milked their cows automatically. The success of the automatic milking system used in free stall barns in Europe suggests that it will also save dairy farmers in Japan from the hard work of milking. However approximately 90% of the dairy farmers in Japan do their milking in stanchion barns, so they require new technologies to cover their workloads different from those in free stall barns. To meet these requirements, this research and development study on milking robot for use in stanchion barns was carried out in the Institute of Agricultural Machinery-BRAIN in Japan from 1993 through 1998.
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