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Lely is a robotics company founded 1948, based in Netherlands, developing 3 robots primarily in the Agricultural category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Lely has no confirmed funding round on file and has 1 deployment on record, all maker-verified.
Shipped
6named customers · 1 tied to a specific robot
1 maker-verified · on 1 robot
- Granadería Pazos· Lely Vectorlely.com ↗
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Lanarkshire dairy family· United Kingdomthescottishfarmer.co.uk
- Watton Farms· United Kingdomfarminglife.com
- Limerick dairy farm· Irelandagriland.ie
- Offaly dairy farm· Irelandagriland.ie
- Grove Dairyfarminglife.com
Robotic milking and farm automation for dairy operations
Lely is a Dutch agricultural robotics company based in Maassluis, Netherlands, best known for robotic milking systems such as the Astronaut A5 Next and related dairy automation products. Its portfolio also includes farm automation solutions used by dairy producers in multiple countries, with a focus on animal well-being and labor efficiency.
Active products
3
RoboIndex
58.82
RoboScore 57.93 + Momentum 0.89
Company facts
- HQ
- Maassluis, Netherlands
- Founded
- 1948 · 78 yrs
- Website
- lely.com
- View profile ↗
RoboScore
57.93 RoboScore + 0.89 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #6 of 45·Agricultural·best robot 57.69 + depth 2.64 + news 0.89 = total 61.22
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Lely promoted the Astronaut A5 Next as its next-generation robotic milking system.
The Astronaut A5 milking robot was introduced and later reported record sales.
Founded by Cornelis and Arij van der Lely in Maassluis, Netherlands.
Press coverage
- Lely
The Robots HQ
- Lely Astronaut A5 Next - Automatic Milking Robot
Lely
- Lely closes a fantastic year with record sales of Astronaut A5 milking robots
Lely North America
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
+0.89momentumof 15 maxOffaly dairy farm extends grazing season with Lely Grazeway
In the news
1 event · last 90 days
Why Lely has been in the news, across 1 outlet — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
Consumer product alerts from this country reach the EU Safety Gate, which we read. Industrial, workplace and medical incidents never enter it, so a blank record says nothing about those.
Active products by Lely
3 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Lely Vector | Agricultural | — | — | 57.7 |
| 2 |  | Juno | Agricultural | IP rating IP20 | 2024 | 53.0 |
| 3 |  | Astronaut A5 Next | Agricultural | — | 2025 | 50.8 |
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