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DAIRY FARMING

Future-Proof Automatic Milking Solutions and Digital Resilience On-Farm
Lely proudly launched three exciting milking to more farms globally. Cur‑
solutions, both Astronaut A5 Next and rently, Astronaut Max can connect up
Astronaut Max build on the success of to 18 Astronaut milking robots in one
the Astronaut A5 milking robot. Next to control room and is therefore suitable
that, Lely Hub was introduced: an es‑ for farms with 500–1100 cows. It sup‑
sential data safety device for farmers. ports the robots in all their peripheral
These solutions are designed to meet needs such as vacuum, compressed
the evolving needs of modern dairy air, cleaning water, udder care and
farming, with a strong focus on improv‑ milk transport. Astronaut Max centra‑
ing animal welfare and farmer prosper‑ proves serviceability through remote lises the milking and cleaning process‑
ity. Lely is proud to take the next step assistance and over‑the‑air software es and storage for cleaning and udder
towards the realisation of the Farm of updates. Backward compatibility en‑ care consumables, the latter contribut‑
the Future. ables farmers with an A5 to upgrade to ing to a safe working environment and
“Business continuity is crucial for our certain features of A5 Next. Secondly, a shortening of labour routines. Milking
farmers. Both in terms of the reliability robot arm that combines precision and and cleaning can be performed inde‑
of the milking processes and digital re‑ vision with laser and camera, offers pendently of each other, which means
silience. Astronaut Max and Astronaut better visibility of the cow's teats. This the milking robots can remain opera‑
A5 Next are designed to provide farm‑ contributes to improving animal health tional even during service and robot
ers with stability in their dairy opera‑ and welfare. For the Astronaut, the add‑ cleaning. This significantly increases
tions and offer future‑proof automatic ed Automatic milk filter automates the uptime and milk capacity. Astronaut
milking solutions. Furthermore, with last remaining manual and repetitive Max is currently in validation and fol‑
the increase in digital services on the routine in the milking process. Finally, lows a phased roll out, starting from
farm, data security is essential. Lely to make automatic milking accessible 2026.
Hub supports our farmers by improv‑ to a larger group of farmers worldwide, Improving digital resilience and data
ing digital safety between Lely solu‑ cow identification through Eartag ID is security on-farm with Lely Hub
tions and the internet.” says André van now part of our cow health portfolio. For farmers, their farm and herd are
Troost, CEO Lely. From today, the Astronaut A5 Next is their most valuable assets. Over the
Making the best even better: Astronaut commercially available through Lely years, farmers have increasingly au‑
A5 Next Centers. For Canada and the US, As‑ tomated and digitised processes on
With the launch of Astronaut A5 Next, tronaut A5 Next will be available after their farms, enhancing the well‑being
Lely offers farmers a future‑proof auto‑ local validation in 2026. of their cows and boosting the farm's
matic milking solution by making the Astronaut Max introduces a new stan- operations. When working with Lely
best even better. The most significant dard for automatic milking on large- solutions such as Astronaut or Vector,
change is the completely new and fu‑ scale farms various sensors collect data about the
ture‑proof operating system that im‑ Lely is committed to bring automatic cows and the robots. Circle 21 on enquiry card

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