AgriGates has been awarded a 2026 grant from the Pennsylvania Center for Poultry and Livestock Excellence (CPLE) to support the establishment of the Data, Analytics, and Technology for Artificial Intelligence in Livestock Animal Behavior Laboratory (DAT-AI-LAB) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
The award supports a 12-month project focused on building Pennsylvania’s first integrated behavioral AI infrastructure for livestock agriculture, combining veterinary science, animal behavior, data engineering, and machine learning to improve farm animal welfare, livestock productivity, and farm sustainability.
DAT-AI-LAB will be located at Penn Vet’s Swine Teaching and Research Center and developed in close collaboration with Thomas D. Parsons, Marie A. Moore Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics and Director of the Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security. The lab builds directly on two prior CPLE-funded AgriGates projects, validating high-frequency wearable sensors and developing integrated behavioral data platforms for machine-learning–based auto-annotation in swine.
“This year’s award allows us to move from proven research tools to durable infrastructure that is species agnostic,” said Daniel Foy, Co-Founder and CEO of AgriGates. “DAT-AI-LAB establishes Pennsylvania as a national leader in ethical, reproducible livestock AI, giving producers, veterinarians, and researchers the tools they need to objectively measure animal behavior and improve animal health, welfare, and productivity.”
