| 1985* | First milking cup is attached to a cow using a robotic arm under experimental setting |
| 1992 | First commercial AMS installed on a farm in The Netherlands |
| 2000 | Approximately 800 farms worldwide using AMS |
| 2001 | First cow milked in New Zealand using an AMS (Greenfield Project, Hamilton) |
| 2003 |
Greenfield Project herd is expanded to 180 cows milked by two AMS |
| 2007 | Approximately 8000 AMS units in operation on farms in 22 countries worldwide |
| 2008 | First commercial AMS farms established in Ashburton and Winton, New Zealand |
*approximate
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