Livestock

The autonomous barns project works on different robots operating alongside each other without literally getting in each other's way.

Researcher Claudia Kamphuis' take on computer vision, big data, and AI for animal husbandry and breeding. What progress has been made? And what challenges (still) exist?

Research suggests computer vision could lead to future improvements in health, welfare and performance of broiler chickens in the poultry sector.

Once every two months, we introduce you to a specialist. We offer some insight into the person, their research, and their expectations. This time, we talked to Claudia Kamphuis, senior research associate at Wageningen Livestock Research about technology in livestock farming, particularly cows on dairy farms. “Simply unleashing an AI expert on a herd of cows is a tricky thing.”

NXTGEN Hightech was officially launched last spring. With the support of the National Growth Fund, over 330 Dutch knowledge institutions, start-ups, scale-ups and (SME) companies will collaborate on new high-tech machines and