Product profile
Discovery Collector
Discovery Collector is Lely's commercial autonomous manure-collection robot family for closed and semi-closed dairy-barn floors. It vacuums manure into an...
Facts
- Company
- Lely
- Product type
- autonomous_cleaning_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Autonomous manure collection
- Website
- https://www.lely.com/gb/solutions/manure/discovery-collector/
About Discovery Collector
Discovery Collector is Lely's vacuum-based manure robot family for dairy-barn walking floors. The robot vacuums slurry into an onboard tank and unloads it at a dumping point. Integrated sensors and route configuration let it work around cows, gates and milking areas without guidance cables or conventional scraper gutters, while water spraying helps leave the floor less slippery.
The current range includes Collector C1 and the newer C2. Lely says the C2 uses a long-life 24 V battery, wireless charging and a combined charging-and-dumping station, with up to 14 operating hours per day. That is a C2 configuration claim, not a guaranteed family-wide duty cycle. A sand-flush accessory extends C1 and C2 use to barns with sand bedding by flushing accumulated sand during dumping. Route coverage, cleaning frequency and required robot count depend on barn geometry, cow traffic and floor conditions.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Manure collection robot
Core: Lely Discovery Collector
Function: Floor cleaning
Audience: Dairy farms
Specifications
- charging_and_service
- Discovery Collector configurations include automated charging, dumping and water-station workflows
- cleaning_method
- Autonomous vacuum collection of manure from barn floors
- control
- Route and robot management through the Lely app ecosystem
- navigation
- Built-in sensors support autonomous route execution in the barn
- operating_context
- Dairy housing and walking areas
- workflow
- Collects manure without requiring conventional gutters or cable infrastructure
Operations
- Environment
- dairy barns, closed and semi-closed walking floors
- Primary user
- dairy farmers, barn managers, farm technicians
- Role
- floor cleaning, manure collection, automatic dumping
- Interaction model
- automatic route execution, Lely app configuration and supervision
- Mobility class
- wheeled autonomous barn-cleaning robot
- Product detail
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