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A Self Milking Cow? ROSS TOWNSHIP, MICH. (Associated Press) - Michigan State University has opened an experimental dairy with the latest technology, including a system that allows cows to milk themselves.

When they feel a need to release milk, the cows step into the system and it uses laser monitors to position suction cups over their teats.

The dairy's many other cow-friendly features include in-pen water beds, treat dispensers, automatic manure scrapers and rotary back scratchers.

The 94-cow dairy is at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station in Kalamazoo County's Ross Township, about 50 miles west-southwest of the school's main East Lansing campus.
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