The equipment · Galaxy M2erlin

The robot we assemble,
support, and stand behind.

You worked through the five questions honestly. If you still believe a robot fits your farm, here’s ours — and a straight account of what it is, how it milks, and how we back it up.

The Galaxy M²erlin robotic milking system, entrance gate open

How it works

One arm does the whole job

Every cow, every milking — identify, prep, attach, milk, spray, in a single trip.

  1. The cow enters the crate and is identified by transponder or pedometer, and the system pulls her records.
  2. The arm carries the teat-prep brush rollers — rotating brushes that clean and stimulate the teats with disinfectant — plus laser teat detection, the cups, and the post-spray nozzle. It preps, attaches, milks, and sprays in one pass.
  3. Milk is read by an integrated meter, with conductivity measured per quarter for early udder-health flagging.
  4. After milking, a backflush of water and compressed air runs through the liners — every cow, every time — to cut cow-to-cow cross-contamination.
  5. Milk is routed automatically to one of three places — bulk tank, bucket, or drain — from her records and live measurements.

What makes it different

Documented in the spec sheet — not the brochure

Single-box modular design

One to six robots share the same compressor, vacuum pump, boiler, and chemical infrastructure. The second box and beyond cost less to stand up than the first — a real economic story for a growing herd.

Cartesian arm with force-sensing

An industrial-style arm on electric servo motors — quiet, simple, rugged. Force-sensing keeps it safe for cow and operator, and its power-cut behavior is defined: cups drop, gate frees, arm held in place.

Backflush after every cow

Water and compressed air through the liners between every cow. Not a daily wash — a flush on every single milking.

Per-quarter conductivity sensing

Udder-health flagging at the quarter level, not just the whole cow — so problems surface earlier.

Three-way milk separation

Bulk tank, bucket, or drain, routed automatically from each cow’s record and her measured milk quality.

AfiAct II activity monitoring

Leg pedometers or collar for heat detection, fertility tracking, and health monitoring — a genuine integration, not a bolt-on.

Crystal & FullSense herd management

Two supported software paths. The right one depends on your farm size and setup — we’ll walk you through which fits.

U.S. final assembly in Kutztown, PA

Final assembly and PMO-compliance work are done at our Pennsylvania facility, with the controls built and programmed there too.

How we back it up

A robot is only as good as the support behind it

Lifetime dealer-level hands-on training

Your team learns the machine, not just how to call for help. Dealers are required to complete Kutztown training.

You’re not locked into brand-only parts

The M2erlin uses standard, widely available parts where it can. You aren’t held hostage to a single-source catalog.

Controls built and programmed in Kutztown

Customized to your farm, including bulk-tank wash communication — total farm automation, supported from here.

A team committed to your operation

We’re a U.S. dealer-channel company at your scale. When you succeed, we do — and we treat it that way.

Straight talk

Yes, there will be 2am moments

Any robot has them. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. What matters isn’t whether something ever goes wrong at a bad hour — it’s who picks up, how fast you’re back milking, and whether your own team was trained well enough to handle the simple things themselves.

That’s the part we work hardest on, and it’s the part we’d rather be judged on. Ask us about it. Ask our farmers about it. Ask the other brands the same question and compare the answers.

When you’re ready

Want the honest math for your farm?

Remember the five cost drivers? Give us your situation and we’ll build a realistic running-cost estimate around them — the real number for your operation, not one borrowed from someone else’s.