Analysis

April 24, 2019

Chicken robots, fitbits for horses, connected cows —  here’s what’s going on in animal tech

Meet the startups disrupting Europe's €400bn farming market with seemingly bizarre solutions


Maija Palmer

9 min read

Photo by Bruce Warrington on Unsplash

Five years ago people were busy strapping Fitbits to their wrists and tracking their steps. Today they are doing it for their race horses.

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Faromatics' ChickenBoy moves around the shed measuring temperature and air quality
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Equilab uses mobile phones to monitor horse training.
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