Small Robot Company

We’re an agri-tech start up commercialising a deceptively simple idea: small robots not big tractors.

We are building robots that will seed and care for each individual plant in your crop. They will only feed and spray the plants that need it, giving them the perfect levels nutrients and support, with no waste.

Our robots are being designed and built by farmers, for farmers.

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The reveal of Harry at REAP 2018

Sam Watson Jones presenting in the Start-Up Showcase at REAP 2017

We’ve made tremendous strides with our small robots and are now launching our first commercial service. Little over two years ago, we unveiled our Small Robot concept at the AgriTechE REAP conference. Here, I introduced our sustainable farming robotics concept to this exclusive community of agritech enthusiasts – and then a year later again at REAP we showed our prototype Tom and Harry robots. REAP was exactly the right platform for us both to launch and then to raise our profile. Time and again, this relationship has proven its value. Through the support of AgriTechE and its highly engaged network, we’ve been able to drive strong visibility to create rapid traction and early customer engagement. AgriTechE has been the platform on which we’ve built our business.

Sam Watson-Jones, Co-Founder, Small Robot Company

Small Robot Company’s first commercial robot ‘Tom’ launches as per-plant weed zapping unveiled

Today the firm has announced that field monitoring robot ‘Tom’ is commercially available and entering service on UK farms. Manufactured in Northumberland by Tharsus, Tom will also be going into 5G trials in Dorset in the autumn in the £8 million 5G RuralDorset project.

Agri-TechE members named in global FoodTech 500 finalists

With over 2,000+ applications received for this year, the competition to make the 2020 FoodTech 500 was fierce. So, from all of us at Forward Fooding, we would like to thank all the companies that enter this year’s competition as well congratulate to all the teams that have made our ranking for the great milestones they have achieved so far and for all the impact they are creating with their work!

5G RuralDorset project to deliver first 5G-ready agri-robot

Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, today announced its partnership in the 5G RuralDorset project together with Wessex Internet, Telint and Dorset Council. The project will develop and prove a blueprint for rural-optimised 5G connectivity, with the world’s first 5G-ready agri-robot for arable farms.

Per Plant Farming

Find out more about how per plant farming could help you.

Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs collaborate on per plant farming approach

Aerial and terrestrial robots are set to transform Latin American agriculture following an agreement between the Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs, to collaborate on delivery of a ‘per plant’ approach to farming.

Slugbot aims to put an end to slimy pests

CHAP, Small Robot Company, COSMONiO and AV and N Lee join forces on autonomous slug monitoring and bio-molluscicide treatment.

Small Robot Company announces robot fleet manufacture with Tharsus

Small Robot Company have announced industrial design and manufacture of its first robot fleet in Britain. The initial fleet of 10 robots will be manufactured by Tharsus, the UK advanced machine and robots designer and manufacturer. The first of the fleet will be ready for commercial service in October 2020.

Small Robot Company goes live on Crowdcube

Small Robot Company announced the launch of its latest Crowdcube equity crowdfunding campaign. The campaign seeks £700,000 to finance SRC’s non-chemical weed zapping robot Dick to field trials, and the manufacture of a fleet of Tom monitoring robots for its commercial weed mapping service.

Small Robot Company zaps weeds with world's first non-chemical robotic weeder

Small Robot Company in partnership with RootWave has developed ‘Dick’ the world's first non-chemical weeding robot that uses electricity and AI to zap individual weeds in the field. Early field trials of the prototype will start in 2020.

World’s first robotic drill unveiled at REAP 2018

The prototype of the world’s first digital drilling robot for combinable crops is being officially unveiled by the Small Robot Company at Agri-Tech East’s REAP 2018 Conference in Cambridge today (7 November). Just one year on since the tech start-up first announced its ‘Farming as a Service’ model at REAP 2017, the Small Robot Company is unveiling Harry, one of three precision engineered, smart robots that could revolutionise food production and the toll big machinery takes on soil and the wider environment.

Latest Agri-Tech on display at REAP 2018

A small taster of the technology exhibition at REAP – featured in the video are: Thorvald robot from University of Lincolnshire; Analytik; Olombria; Drone AG; PlaterBio; Harry from Small Robot Company; EnviroMonitors; facial recognition from Consus Fresh Solutions; Robot-Fish from University of Essex.

Small Robot Company previews its farming as a service model at REAP 2017

Robots are to be made available in a ‘Farming as a Service’ model, it was announced at REAP 2017 by the Small Robot Company. The agri-tech start-up is to offer a subscription service, which will see the farm ‘digitised’ and with the feeding, seeding and weeding managed by robots.

Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs collaborate on per plant farming approach

Aerial and terrestrial robots are set to transform Latin American agriculture following an agreement between the Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs, to collaborate on delivery of a ‘per plant’ approach to farming.

Small Robot Company

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Small Robot Company’s first commercial robot ‘Tom’ launches as per-plant weed zapping unveiled

Today the firm has announced that field monitoring robot ‘Tom’ is commercially available and entering service on UK farms. Manufactured in Northumberland by Tharsus, Tom will also be going into 5G trials in Dorset in the autumn in the £8 million 5G RuralDorset project.

Agri-TechE members named in global FoodTech 500 finalists

5G RuralDorset project to deliver first 5G-ready agri-robot

Per Plant Farming

Find out more about how per plant farming could help you.

Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs collaborate on per plant farming approach

Aerial and terrestrial robots are set to transform Latin American agriculture following an agreement between the Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs, to collaborate on delivery of a ‘per plant’ approach to farming.

Slugbot aims to put an end to slimy pests

CHAP, Small Robot Company, COSMONiO and AV and N Lee join forces on autonomous slug monitoring and bio-molluscicide treatment.

Small Robot Company announces robot fleet manufacture with Tharsus

Small Robot Company goes live on Crowdcube

Small Robot Company announced the launch of its latest Crowdcube equity crowdfunding campaign. The campaign seeks £700,000 to finance SRC’s non-chemical weed zapping robot Dick to field trials, and the manufacture of a fleet of Tom monitoring robots for its commercial weed mapping service.

Small Robot Company zaps weeds with world's first non-chemical robotic weeder

Small Robot Company in partnership with RootWave has developed ‘Dick’ the world's first non-chemical weeding robot that uses electricity and AI to zap individual weeds in the field. Early field trials of the prototype will start in 2020.

World’s first robotic drill unveiled at REAP 2018

Latest Agri-Tech on display at REAP 2018

Small Robot Company previews its farming as a service model at REAP 2017

Robots are to be made available in a ‘Farming as a Service’ model, it was announced at REAP 2017 by the Small Robot Company. The agri-tech start-up is to offer a subscription service, which will see the farm ‘digitised’ and with the feeding, seeding and weeding managed by robots.

Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs collaborate on per plant farming approach

Aerial and terrestrial robots are set to transform Latin American agriculture following an agreement between the Small Robot Company and SpaceTime Labs, to collaborate on delivery of a ‘per plant’ approach to farming.

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