It knows how to navigate its environment, but also how to inspect it with its little mast-cam and from that inspection derive meaningful data like whether an object can be rolled over, or a gap can be crossed.
That inspection did not occur.
That inspection is expected to conclude shortly.
Tests on samples gathered on the day of that inspection were negative for salmonella.
No violations were cited as a result of that inspection, he said.
The results of that inspection are not expected until later in the autumn.
That inspection, conducted by Verité, which is based in Massachusetts, was a scathing broadside.
That inspection duty falls to local authorities, usually town health inspectors, who issue certificates of legal abandonment.
"What we are asking the secretary of state to do is wait until we have had that inspection.
But the official added that the results of that inspection did not show that there was any generic problem.
But if cattle go down in the time between that inspection and slaughter, a federal veterinarian is supposed to be summoned to determine if they are fit.
