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Small Robot Company

Small Robot Company makes Tom crop-scanning robot, which is at stage 3 of 5: pilot.

Based in: United Kingdom
Latest milestone: 2 Feb 2024

01Robots

What Small Robot Company makes

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Tom crop-scanning robotFarm · Crop-scanning field robotStage 3 of 5 · PilotSmall Robot Company, from Salisbury in England, started in 2017 and built small farm robots. Its Tom robot scanned fields to find weeds so farmers could treat only where needed. The company went into liquidation in 2024.Nowhere: the company stopped trading and liquidators were appointed in February 2024.The full record

02Track record

Every dated event

2 Feb 2024Setback
Farmers Weekly reported that farmers who had invested in the company might not get their money back.
Farmers Weekly, 2 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024Setback
Small Robot Company shut down after failing to raise the money for its next stage; Kroll was appointed to sell its assets.
The Robot Report, 2 Feb 2024
8 May 2023Setback
Its lead investor pulled out of a planned funding round, leaving the company without money to keep going.
Future Farming, 8 May 2023Company-reported
8 May 2023Milestone
The company said its service that season had shown up to 90% savings on weedkiller and 24% on fertiliser.
Future Farming, 8 May 2023Company-reported
5 June 2022Milestone
The company said it would roll out its robot crop-scanning service to 50 farms the next season, with nearby farms sharing a robot.
Farmers Weekly, 5 June 2022Company-reported
5 June 2022Milestone
Waitrose's Leckford Estate farm was among the first in the UK to sign up for the robot service.
Farmers Weekly, 5 June 2022
2022Milestone
At the end of 2022 the company launched version 4 of Tom, its crop-scouting robot.
Future Farming, 8 May 2023Company-reported

03Money

How it ended

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