The future of ranching might rumble across Wyoming’s sagebrush on tank tracks, equipped with cameras and sensors instead of spurs and lassos. At Mississippi State University, researcher Marcus McGee has been testing a 4-foot-by-4-foot robotic platform called the Warthog that can herd cattle with surprising effectiveness. The results from his trials at the university’s Bearden Dairy Research Center suggest that …
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