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Just so that everybody is on the same page: https://youtu.be/IGo32RICjk8 https://youtu.be/IGo32RICjk8 The bar for sheep herding robots is ridiculously high. B
by ohazi 8y ago
Just so that everybody is on the same page:
https://youtu.be/IGo32RICjk8 https://youtu.be/IGo32RICjk8
The bar for sheep herding robots is ridiculously high. Border Collies are super smart.
- phillc73 8y agoThank you. My first thought when reading this was that sheep dogs, the really good ones, don't typically bark. They are very patient and quiet. Barking is likely to send the sheep in the wrong direction. I owned a working cattle dog once (when I worked on a farm with cattle) and this dog did bark, too much! She wasn't a very good working dog because she'd spook the cattle with the barking. Ultimately, I'm not convinced a "barking" drone is really going to be very effective.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoObligatory: https://youtu.be/vGOGOxtN2lM https://youtu.be/vGOGOxtN2lM (Welsh herdsmen put lights on sheep and play “pong” on a sloped hillside after dusk with the help of border collies.)
- dTal 8y agoThat's incredibly impressive. I knew that sheepdogs were good but that level of control is unreal.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoYou should check out videos of sheepdog trial finalists. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrwm-8c354 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrwm-8c354 Pretty impressive and fun to watch.