Products: milking-robot, feeding-robot. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 10.8/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 100th percentile of 144 agtech companies.
The record consists of a single high-severity entry: a roughly $122 million class-action settlement over defects in the Astronaut A4 robotic milking system, dated September 2023. Severity is coded at 3, and the settlement value indicates a defect of scale affecting a fielded product line rather than an isolated unit failure. Despite this, Lely's index (10.6) sits at the 100th percentile within agtech, indicating this is the category's most severe or singular recorded event rather than one of several. The record is a single legal/financial resolution, not a pattern of recurring incidents, and its press/litigation origin distinguishes it from a regulator-initiated action.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | recall | — | Lely settles Astronaut A4 robotic milking system defect class action for ~$122M · ~$122M settlement | brownfieldagnews.com |