In the first article of this trilogy [1], the cost-price squeeze facing the Australian woolgrower was advanced as the motivation for spending more than $3 million p.a. on the Australian Wool Harvesting Programme. The first article summarized the use of technology to improve wool severing devices. This article addresses the progress of a novel technology – the use of robots to shear sheep.
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