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They have the same Lely automatic milking machines from the article, and you can watch them do their thing.

But then that gives nod to Lely products being closer to automation than robotics again.

Both Lely and DeLaval seems to have at least some customers with thousands of cows.

There are a few other companies that make robotic systems like these, but Lely is the largest by a significant margin.

I happened to be in Rotterdam last fall for another conference, which was close enough to the Lely headquarters for a visit.

I believe that Lely promises that they'll have someone on-site to fix (or, start fixing) a broken robot within about 2 hours.

This guy has been using the Lely feeder robots.

Each product Lely sells is the full solution.

I was at a robotics conference in Boulder last spring, where some folks from Lely presented a paper on their robotic code of conduct.

It is entirely plausible that he would have issued a 'warts and all' instruction when being painted and it is unlikely that Lely would have modified his style and produced the 'warts and all' portrait of Cromwell unless someone told him to.

Also while those Lely robots are uneconomic presently - at some point in the next 5 years - a single robot that sits in the cups on side of a rotary cowshed and milks 350 cows per hour will come on the market.

Unfortunately the Lely salesman, the bank manager, and the farmer are unaware that maintaining multiple complex robots on farms is not profitable and that one state of the art robot to 50 cows or so is a waste of capital that only exists due to farmer subsidies and the tediousness of milk-harvesting.

Compared to a Lely robotic milking system [2], which uses "smart collars" to identify the cows, that's primitive.

"Googlely" would be pronounced as goog-lely, which was obviously not the desired idea or part of speech.

Lely is somewhat unique in that they're a robotics company rather than an agricultural machinery company that also makes some robots.

Lely's painting of Charles II shows what was expected of a painting of a head of state in the 17th century.

Lely's painting style was, as was usual at the time, intended to flatter the sitter.