Takes me back to a two decade long robotic sheep shearing project Shear Magic .. there's a 1992 wrap up book on that: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/r

Takes me back to a two decade long robotic sheep shearing project Shear Magic .. there's a 1992 wrap up book on that: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/robotica/article/abs/robots-for-shearing-sheep-shear-magic-by-james-p-trevelyan-oxford-science-publications-oxford-university-press-1992-398-pages-incl-index-4000/FD1CB3D3AF1E626FC0731A6C6B9A6B2B https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/robotica/article/abs... all a bit before Boston Dynamics.