{"id":563935,"date":"2026-07-30T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563935"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:30:20","slug":"they-keep-dragging-their-feet-lukashenka-still-has-not-got-his-milking-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/they-keep-dragging-their-feet-lukashenka-still-has-not-got-his-milking-robot","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They Keep Dragging Their Feet.&#8221; Lukashenka Still Has Not Got His Milking Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Work on developing a Belarusian robotic milking system is progressing slowly, judging by remarks made by <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> during a visit to Brest.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<b>Karankevich<\/b> (Deputy Prime Minister \u2014 ed.) still can&#8217;t build a robot together with <b>Predko<\/b> (director general of Horizont \u2014 ed.). They just keep dragging their feet. God willing, by the end of the year, with your help, they&#8217;ll finally make something,&#8221;<\/i> Lukashenka said, addressing <b>Piotr Parkhomchyk<\/b>, chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/horizont-shows-lukashenka-a-milking-robot\">mock-up of the robotic milking system<\/a> was presented to Lukashenka during his visit to Horizont on the last day of last year. Video footage showed a life-size cardboard cutout of a cow next to a manipulator resembling an industrial robot, apparently intended to attach milking cups to the udder. None of the other equipment typically found in robotic milking systems was on display.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Lukashenka&#8217;s press service said the company had presented a mock-up of an automated milking unit based on a robotic manipulator with artificial intelligence elements. It noted that <i>&#8220;the product is not yet ready for mass production, but work is underway.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Judging by Lukashenka&#8217;s latest remarks, however, that work does not appear to be progressing as expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on developing a Belarusian robotic milking system is progressing slowly, judging by remarks made by Aliaksandr Lukashenka during a visit to Brest. &#8220;Karankevich (Deputy Prime Minister \u2014 ed.) still can&#8217;t build a robot together with Predko (director general of Horizont \u2014 ed.). They just keep dragging their feet. God willing, by the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6b27c4d3418.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u00abThey Keep Dragging Their Feet.\u00bb Lukashenka Still Has Not Got His Milking Robot"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}