00:04this is swag bot and while it might look like a drone on wheels it could be the shepherd of
00:09the
00:09future the AI powered farmhand rolls around with real cows first being deployed in 2016 to take
00:14them autonomously from pasture to pasture now it's being upgraded and also includes a litany
00:19of sensors to track both pasture health so that the cows do not overgraze but it also builds health
00:24profiles on each individual cow and you can actually measure the property of the animal's motion
00:30as it's moving along so what we call its gate so how it's actually moving and if you measure that
00:35information over a number of different days you start to build up a characteristic profile of that
00:39animal and from that you can determine whether or not the animal is healthy or not healthy on a
00:44particular point in time along that along that path this is university of sydney professor of
00:49robotics and intelligent systems salas the pilot program is being done in sydney australia one of
00:55the world's leading producers of beef and with 30 million cows being bred currently pasture health
01:00is a major concern as overgrazing can ruin soil meaning having a better idea of what is going on
01:06all the time is critical and swag bot can do that we have you know the population of the world
01:11is growing
01:12and we have the same amount of land to feed that population and so maximizing how much food we
01:19deliver for the same amount of imports even less in terms of the input is what's important and the
01:23only way we can do that is with precision agriculture
