DeLaval Voluntary Milking System

Just when you thought that cows couldn't possiblely be more separated from humans, along comes an even greater industrialization of the relationship.

"A 122-year-old dairy equipment company has used embedded Linux in a robotic cow-milking system (the system is robotic, not the cows). The Voluntary Milking System (VMS) allows cows to decide when to be milked, and gives dairy farmers a more independent lifestyle, free from regular milkings, the company says..."