Discovery Collector, the revolutionary manure robot for (semi) closed barn floors

Now also available for sand bedded cubicles!

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The Discovery Collector takes a revolutionary approach to cleaning the barn floor by collecting manure through a vacuum technique instead of scraping it, making manure build-up a thing of the past. This helps reduce manure build-up in the cubicles, resulting in cleaner hooves, tails, and udders, which can help reduce infections and optimise cow health. The Collector is specially designed for cleaning (semi) closed barn floors, day and night, at times that fit you and the cows’ daily rhythm making it the ideal cleaning companion for maintaining optimal barn hygiene. And the good news is, from now on it’s also suitable for sand bedded cubicles.

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The benefits of Discovery Collector

Low disturbance

The low-disturbance machine is compactly designed and does not require cables or gutters, providing easy navigation and a safer living environment for the cows.

Clean and safe

The Collector sprays water from the front, resulting in improved manure collection, and from the back, to wet the floor for additional grip, contributing to a clean and safe environment.

Easy to install in the barn

The Collector is easy to install into most barns. All you need is a dumping and charging station. With the latest Collector C2, this can even be combined in one location. Because of the compact and ergonomic design and autonomous driving, other modifications to the barn layout are unlikely, if at all.

Easy navigation

With its compact and ergonomic design and built-in sensors the Collector navigates easily in tight spaces and small corners, under sorting gates, through cross alleys and around the automatic milking system.

Flexible cleaning

The cleaning frequency of the pre-programmed routes can be set to match either you or the cows’ daily rhythm to make things as hassle-free as possible. The cleaning schedule can be easily adjusted using your mobile phone (Android).

Discovery Collector C2

Maximum efficiency in time and space

In 2023, we introduced the Discovery Collector C2 alongside the Collector C1. This newest Collector has all the benefits of the original, complemented with more driving capacity and wireless charging. Due to the latest technology and a long-life 24-volt battery the Collector C2 can drive longer and charge faster, allowing it to clean more frequently. Wireless charging makes it possible to charge and dump at one location making it even easier to fit in the barn layout and leaving the Collector C2 more time for what it was designed for: cleaning the barn floor.

New: sand flush for Discovery Collector

Clean barns, healthy cows. Now also available for sand bedded cubicles

Sand is a widely chosen type of bedding for cubicles worldwide. For Discovery Collector, until now manure containing sand was difficult to handle. This is because the sand was vacuumed together with the manure and, when the manure was dumped, the sand remained in the tank and accumulated over time. As a result, there was less space left in the tank for collected manure and thus the robot no longer worked optimally.

To solve this problem, we at Lely have been working hard on the latest innovation in the Discovery family: the sand flush. An accessory that allows the benefits of both Discovery Collector C1 and C2 to be utilised in barns containing sand bedded cubicles.

Discovery Collector and sand flush

Discovery Collector cleans the barn floor by collecting manure through a vacuum technique. Sand flush is an easy-to-install accessory for both Discovery Collector C1 and C2. It flushes the mix of sand and manure out of the tank with water.

Preventing build-up of sand in the tank.
Maximising tank capacity to clean the barn.
Keeping the machine in balance while navigating the routes.

Discovery Collector

A compact robotic manure collector for (semi) closed barn floors.
Cleans the barn floor day and night using a revolutionary vacuum technique making manure build up a thing of the past and minimising the rotating parts where manure reaches, resulting in less maintenance.
Its compact size enables it to clean almost every part of the barn, including cross alleys and around the milking robot, while causing little to no disruption.
The built-in sensors enable the Collector to follow its pre-programmed routes autonomously without cables or gutters.
The schedule and cleaning frequency of the pre-programmed routes can be easily aligned with you and the cows’ daily rhythm using your mobile phone (Android).
Water spraying at the front improves cleaning results.
Water spraying at the rear prevents the floor from becoming slippery.
Wireless charging on the Collector C2 enables combined dumping and charging in one location, for more compact installation and leaving more time to collect manure.

Lely Discovery Collector works well with

Lely Sphere

Take advantage of emissions, fertilise with precision

Lely Sphere is a circular manure-handling system for separating mineral streams and creating value from emissions. The system separates manure and urine and converts nitrogen emissions into valuable fertilisers. You can use these for precision fertilisation. In this way, you improve closing mineral cycles as well as barn climate.

Why Lely?

Farmers all over the world make choices about how they set up and run their farms. Every day, we help them make the best choices for themselves and their farms. We do this by providing advice and innovative solutions that contribute to efficient farm management. For sustainable milk and meat production. Present and future.

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