How animal agriculture is reaping the benefits of AI. [Video]

Imagine a second set of eyes on your pregnant cows and receiving an alert, with a high degree of precision and accuracy, when a cow is about to give birth. Now imagine those eyes trained on your pregnant cows 24 hours a day, seven days a week, taking neither breaks nor being called away to perform other tasks.

That is what Nikon is developing. The company, well known for its imaging technologies, is using its expertise to produce an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system, using cameras to constantly monitor cows in individual calving pens. Employing advanced algorithms, the system can detect when a cow is about to give birth and immediately alert the farmer.

“The system constantly monitors mother cows with multiple surveillance cameras and analyzes the cow’s characteristic behaviors by processing the images with AI,” says Hirotaka Kono, section manager with Nikon.

“Data is sent to the data center …