Robot Sheep Shearing

[neoprodigy]

This robot clipped around 400 fleeces between 1985 and 1993 at the University of Western Australia. The sheep was in its natural state, with no drugs or artificial means of keeping it still. In over 1000 tests with this robot, only a few sheep were seriously injured, and there were many times fewer skin cuts than human shearers inflict because the robot could react in thousandths of a second. This was research sponsored by Australian wool growers and the government. See http://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/jpt/

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[nubz]

and then the sheep goes back to his friends and says" i was blinded by a white light, three big headed green people boarded me in thier ship!!! then they clipped me into a horrible machine!!! a machine shaved strange patterns into my wool. i was then marked by the strange animals and they took a probe and they put it in my...)
the others wont believe him until it happens to them!

 

[dingoofus]

Those crazy Aussies, lol.