{"id":226434,"date":"2026-06-04T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/penn-vet-launches-ai-powered-livestock-behavior-lab\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:00:18","slug":"penn-vet-launches-ai-powered-livestock-behavior-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/penn-vet-launches-ai-powered-livestock-behavior-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Vet launches AI-powered livestock behavior lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/06\/penn-vet-artificial-intelligence-lab-animal-behavior-bolton-center\">Penn Vet launches AI-powered livestock behavior lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/06\/penn-vet-artificial-intelligence-lab-animal-behavior-bolton-center\">https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/06\/penn-vet-artificial-intelligence-lab-animal-behavior-bolton-center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 23:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedp.com\">www.thedp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The School of Veterinary Medicine at Penn Vet has launched the Data, Analytics, and Technology for AI in Livestock Animal Behavior (DAT-AI-LAB) on May 20 at its New Bolton Center.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The lab is spearheading efforts led by Daniel Foy, co-founder and CEO of AgriGates, and Thomas Parsons, a Swine Production Medicine professor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The lab aims to utilize large-scale data collection and AI to improve animal health and welfare decisions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Initially focusing on swine and dairy animals, the lab plans to expand and develop tools that assist both farm hands and veterinary practitioners.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The DAT-AI-LAB employs a decentralized AI approach, processing much of the computation on local equipment on farms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The lab has been supported by a $31,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and a $90,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Center for Poultry and Livestock Excellence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The DAT-AI-LAB aims to establish Penn and Philadelphia as global leaders in livestock behavioral intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This initiative forms part of Penn Vet\u2019s broader efforts at New Bolton Center, which also recently announced a $94 million laboratory and a $17 million educational center.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Vet launches AI-powered livestock behavior lab https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/06\/penn-vet-artificial-intelligence-lab-animal-behavior-bolton-center Publish Date: 2026-06-04 23:55:00 Source Domain: www.thedp.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dpn\/3ab8843e-6734-4970-ab5b-cb9e5f957312.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800&h=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226436,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226434\/revisions\/226436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}