Henk Hofman,Cor de Ruijter,Menno Koekoek,Peter Willem van der Sluis
申请号:
US14244490
公开号:
US09480236B2
申请日:
2014.04.03
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要:
A system includes a milking box and a robotic arm. The milking box comprises a stall portion that houses a dairy livestock with four teats. The robotic arm performs the following operation for a plurality of teats of the dairy livestock: retrieves a cup attaches the cup to a teat and detaches the cup from the teat. The cup is maintained within the stall portion of the milking box from the time that the cup is attached to a first teat of the dairy livestock through the time that the cup is attached to a last teat of the dairy livestock. The cup is retracted into an equipment area of the milking box after it is detached from the last teat of the dairy livestock.