Robotic rotational grazing system

A system of autonomously and automatically moving robot machines connected together to form a fence enclosure to contain grazing animals therewithin, comprising:

• a plurality of robot machines, each including:
• an electronic controller;
• a motor assembly controlled by the electronic controller;
• a motorized locomotion assembly powered by the motor assembly to cause the robot machine to move in coordination with others of the robot machines to maintain the fence enclosure from one grazing location to another,
• each of the robot machines including a wireless transceiver such that the respective electronic controller is configured to communicate with a remote wireless transceiver so that the plurality of robot machines mutually coordinate their respective movements according to a grazing optimization algorithm to move synchronously to different grazing locations on an area of land and to collectively arrange themselves autonomously to form a new fence enclosure having the same or a different configuration from the fence enclosure, the grazing optimization algorithm being configured to automatically determine optimum positions and locations of the robot machines and areas to form fence enclosures on a plot of land,
• at least one of the robot machines having an imaging sensor configured to detect information about one or more of the grazing animals within the fence enclosure,
• the electronic controller of the at least one of the robot machines being configured to communicate a signal indicating that the one or more of the grazing animals has moved outside or beyond the fence enclosure as detected by the imaging sensor,
• the electronic controller of the at least one of the robot machines being configured to use a pattern recognition or anomaly detection algorithm to automatically recognize that one or more of the grazing animals is about to move or has moved beyond the perimeter of the fence enclosure and to track those of the animals that continually approach a boundary of the fence enclosure or one of the robot machines to send information regarding those tracked animals,
• each of the robot machines including an actuator coupled to a support, the electronic controller being configured to change a vertical angle of the support by which a fence wire is supported to adjust a position of the fence wire above a ground surface of an area of land and to prevent the fence wire from contacting the ground surface while one or more of the robot machines are moving the fence enclosure from one location to another.