Keeping their cool: Weather forecasts for cows, ... Dairy farmer Megan McAllister checks on Sugar Plum, one of her cows in a barn on her farm July 24 in New Vienna, Iowa.

In a dairy barn managed by robots, cows can choose to be milked whenever they like, which is often more frequent than the twice-a-day schedule in traditional farms.

In tests using video footage of cows moving closely together in a barn, this method achieved about 90% accuracy in tracking the cows, measured through Multi-Object Tracking Accuracy, and around 80 ...

However, by that time Kyle had somehow managed to shoo nearly 100 cows from the barn, except for three calves that were lost in the fire. "Maybe it was adrenaline," Kyle's father said.