Comments on: Robot Sheep Shearing Looks Like Animal Abuse, Apparently Isn’t

By: mobile

mobile — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:44:00 +0000

I’m a little worried ’bout the sheep!

By: stok

stok — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:38:01 +0000

Yes it simply bomb! Such tremendous shots, they will be pleasant both green and red

By: i h8 u

i h8 u — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:19:55 +0000

the sheep goes thru no pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! these people know what they are doing, they are not just cruel people who want the sheep to go through pain! they try to make it as nice as possible for the sheep!!!!!!!

By: Eric Wolfsbane

Eric Wolfsbane — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:04:28 +0000

So, do you expect me to talk?
No, Mr. Baa-hnd, I expect you to die.

By: r-chy

r-chy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:30:06 +0000

I’m wondering if they have another button that turns the sheep around over a fire and then adds the Mint Sauce.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:37:53 +0000

seems wierd as a shearer to see a machine designed to do what I do the so called head locks and other stretching holds are designed to stretch the skin under the wool so that when the shears pass over the hide it has no wrinkles in it. This minimises the times when a fold of skin can get caught between the teeth of the comb and get caught I suppose a robot never get tired of has to take a pee but then a robot won’t neccisarily know the difference between the different breeds of sheep with variances in body shape, wool growth and looseness of skin. My job is safe, a robot will be more of a butcher than any human shearer. After all if a shearer cut an animal that’s a dock in his pay, if he does it too much he doesn’t come back the next day. Farmers like to keep their breeding ewes in one piece afterall, and even slaughter animals neep to go to the abbatoir healthy and without infection or they are not fit for human consumpion. Which equals no profit for the farmer and no job for the shearer.

By: sheep

sheep — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:44:50 +0000

Feels good man.

By: Fran6Ko

Fran6Ko — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:53:10 +0000

It’s very very horrible!!! The man who construct this machine is a big big big big a** hole and i want shave his face and the hair with the same machine. It’s bad m***** f*****!!
Je suis français et je trouve ça totalement inhumain.

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By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:11:42 +0000

The robot dates from the late ’80’s not the ’90’s. The compute power back then mean’t long compute times and the shearing wasn’t quick enough for commercial shearing. As for the sheep abuse, the accuracy was good with less cuts than human shearing. Do remember that human shearers are paid per sheep and basically grab the sheep in a headlock and stretch it in various positions to shear it. As for animal movement to robot used structured light and basic sheep stats to create an open loop path for the shearing head and a custom capacitance sensor on the cutter to modify the path due to sheep breathing.

By: Zool

Zool — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:18:24 +0000

That is seriously scary looking. The problem with shearing is if the animal moves, which is exactly where AI struggles to deal with unexpected situations. That sounds like a recipe for disaster. I guess thats why they are using a stretch rack!

I’m wondering if they have another button that turns the sheep around over a fire and then adds the Mint Sauce.