Strength in numbers: GEA robots save energy and water, especially with large herds

GEA has further boosted the efficiency of its robots for milking large herds with a new system configuration on the DairyRobot R9500 automated milking system. The master-secondary configuration allows up to eight boxes to be connected to a single main milk line as well as up to 16 boxes to one tank, resulting in substantial energy and water savings in multi-robot installations. A new, independent test by the German Agricultural Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – DLG) shows very good economy figures for GEA in a two-box system.