#cattle herding

[rjzimmerman]

Meet SwagBot, the AI-powered robot cattle herder preventing soil degradation. (Reuters)

Excerpt from this story from Reuters:

With four wheels and a bright red paint job, SwagBot is not your average cow.

But researchers at the University of Sydney say this autonomous robot is on its way to becoming the world's first 'smart cow', able to make cattle farming more efficient and environmentally friendly.

First launched in 2016 as a simple herding robot capable of traversing rugged terrain, SwagBot has been updated with sensors, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems.

The battery-powered SwagBot can now determine the health, type and density of pasture and monitor the health of livestock.

It then uses this information to autonomously herd cattle to the best pastures and move them before land is overgrazed and soil becomes degraded. It can also feed data back to farmers.

"Once the cattle are used to the robot, they will follow the robot around," said University of Sydney professor of robotics and intelligent systems, Salah Sukkarieh, whose team made SwagBot.

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Success

Burketown Campdraft.

On my travels

[languagexs]

The Great Dinka Tribe of South Sudan: Culture, History, and People

The Resilient Dinka Tribe of South Sudan The Dinka represent the largest ethnic group and tribe in South Sudan, concentrated along the banks of the White Nile River basin numbering around 4.5 million people. As cattle herders whose way of life revolves around their cows, the Dinka have preserved a resilient culture centered on their ancestral Nilotic language passed through generations. However,…

[beskarfrog]

a witch and his familiar

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[alwaysbewoke]

"...the first cowboys lived in Mexico and the Caribbean, and most of them were Black. That’s the conclusion of a recent analysis of DNA from 400-year-old cow bones excavated on the island of Hispaniola and at sites in Mexico. The work, published in Scientific Reports, also provides evidence that African cattle made it to the Americas at least a century earlier than historians realized. The timing of these African imports—to the early 1600s—suggests the growth of cattle herds may have been connected to the slave trade, says study author Nicolas Delsol, an archaeozoologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “It changes the whole perspective on the mythical figure of the cowboy, which has been whitewashed over the 20th century.”

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[warmfuzzyanimal]

herd on the hill

[omgthatdress]

United States of America! Part 2!

Cowboy boots, Steston Shoe Co., 1910-1920, The FIDM Museum

[hecates-corner]

Y’all, the god of the sun is not Apollo.

Eurylochus “killed” the immortal cattle of Helios.

[ohlookitsabluejay]

“Why eat a pig but not a dog-“

Because that’s how we evolved? Humans are animals, we know that right? We’re omnivores and animals like pigs are our natural prey. A shark could eat a cleaner fish but it doesn’t because it’s getting cleaned and you don’t bite the hand that gives. A human could eat a dog, (and some do, I won’t speak on that.) but we don’t because they have services to give outside of being food. Same thing with cats. With prey animals, the logic I’m surrounded by is we feed them and they feed us. the cycle of energy is just as important as the cycle of service. And both should be exercised with respect for those involved.

[teaandinanity]

I would just like to reiterate that Kamala Harris is not and was never a cop.

She was a district attorney.

DAs can and have done a lot of good, occasionally up to and including refusing to enforce laws they think are evil bullshit.

In her case, she used the position to help start a program that literally said 'this nonviolent drug offender should go to school instead of prison, actually.' Which reduced recidivism and is EXACTLY the kind of thing I would like to see more of from our justice system.

She's not a cop.

[equilight]

jimmy being a whiny bitch, and poor victor putting in all the work. [salvaged kinetoscope film strip evidence, cca. mid 19th c., non-colorized]

weapon x was just an excuse

[thatqueersteer]

Just a bull yak and his calf ☺️

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Credit: Harry Hundal

[yeehawesome]

hear me out hear me out cowboy pride and prejudice cowboy pride and prejudice

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My modest collection of vintage cowboy imagery is growing.

[kat-n-dog]

Oh hello