Product profile
Vector MFR Next
Vector MFR Next is Lely's commercial automatic mixing and feeding robot for dairy and cattle barns. It carries up to 800 kg of feed—35% more than the previ...
Facts
- Company
- Lely
- Product type
- agricultural_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Automated livestock feeding
- Website
- https://www.lely.com/gb/solutions/feeding/vector/
About Vector MFR Next
Vector MFR Next is the mobile mixing and feeding robot in Lely's automatic feeding system. A feed grabber loads ingredients at the feed kitchen; the robot mixes the ration, travels to assigned groups and dispenses fresh feed along the feeding alley. Lely specifies an 800 kg maximum loading capacity, 35% above the previous generation, and highlights a strengthened driveline, front and rear lights and access to robot status through an updated app.
The system supports frequent, group-specific feeding without requiring a tractor run for every ration. It can serve narrow alleys, multiple barns and sloping routes, while an updated feed-centre layout can load two robots simultaneously for larger farms. Vector is therefore a site-level feeding installation, not only a vehicle: feed storage, ingredient loading, routing, ration configuration, electrical infrastructure and Lely service all shape performance. Lely commercially launched the MFR Next on 18 March 2025.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Automatic feeding robot
Core: Lely Vector MFR Next
Function: Feed distribution
Audience: Dairy and cattle farms
Specifications
- feeding_system
- Mixes and distributes fresh ration to cows throughout the day
- lighting
- Front and rear lights on the MFR Next
- loading_capacity_increase_pct
- Increase versus the previous Vector generation %
- maximum_loading_capacity_kg
- 800 kg
- navigation
- Autonomous navigation through the barn and feeding routes
- operating_model
- Continuous feeding workflow with remote oversight through the Lely ecosystem
- workflow
- Autonomous feed preparation, loading, transport and distribution
Operations
- Environment
- dairy barns, cattle farms, feed kitchens and feeding alleys
- Primary user
- dairy farmers, cattle farmers, herd and feeding managers
- Role
- ingredient loading, ration mixing, feed transport, ration distribution
- Interaction model
- automatic route execution, farm app supervision
- Mobility class
- wheeled autonomous feeding robot
- Product detail
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