The Dairy Center, just south of NICC's Calmar campus, began milking with two new Lely Astronaut A4 robots on Dec. 10. "We were thrilled with how start-up went," Kregel said.

The Lely robotic milking system uses sensors to position itself on a cow's udder before milking the anima. The system also washes and disinfects the cow's udders and itself.

Milking machines have been around for a long time. Lely itself has been providing automated milking systems to dairy farmers for almost 20 years. What sets the more recent of the Astronaut series of ...

Linda and Andy Styger added two Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking systems to their organic dairy farm in Chehalis. Before the robots, the Stygers milked their 90 cows twice daily.

Meet Johann LELY, a robot milking machine, the latest technology in happy, heathly cows.

Staff photo by Britney LillyaJoe Doak talks about all of the functions of the Lely Robotic Milking System at his dairy farm in Mannington. The Doaks are the only dairy farmers in the state that ...

Dutch agricultural firm Lely has developed a new robotic milker called Astronaut 4 that enables the farmer to monitor milking on a smartphone while the cows get on with the job themselves.

One of the milk cups of a Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking machine unlatches from a cow’s teat (left). The milking robots also can register characteristics of the milk, such as color and ...

Lely has launched three new robotic solutions for milking cows. Both Astronaut A5 Next and Astronaut Max build on the success of the Astronaut A5 milking robot. In addition, the Lely Hub was also ...

The Lely robotic milking system uses sensors to position itself on a cow’s udder before milking. The system also washes and disinfects the cow’s udders and itself.

Globally, there are an nearly 10,000 Lely-manufactured robotic milking systems. Robotics has been a popular way to milk cows in Europe for nearly 20 years.

A robotic milker lets the cows be milked when they are ready, increases production, decreases or eliminates the need for hired dairy workers and frees the farmer from a relentless milking schedule.