Small Robot Company · working robot
Tom
A dog-sized wheeled robot with precise GPS that photographed fields plant by plant; siblings Dick (weeding) and Harry (drilling) were planned.
- Price
- —Built for about GBP 4,000 (cost, not a sale price)
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A discontinued machine from Small Robot Company.
Real-world use
Provided commercial weed-mapping services on UK farms; the company entered liquidation in February 2024.
Maker
Small Robot CompanyCompany · United KingdomPublic attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It drove field routes by itself with precise GPS, photographing plants for weed maps.
- Sensors & vision
- Rear-mounted Android phone camera taking about three images a second; front laser rangefinder; wheel encoders and compass; Trimble RTK GPS (about 2 cm accuracy)
- Compute
- Images uploaded to the off-board 'Wilma' AI system that identifies wheat versus grass weeds
- Battery & power
- LiFe hobby-grade batteries, several hours per charge
- Materials & build
- Prototype built for about GBP 4,000 from online and 3D-printed parts on a chassis bought in Kansas
- Other details
- Phone provides Wi-Fi hotspot and 4G link
From the maker
Tom is the only machine from Small Robot Company in the atlas.
Watch Tom
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedBuilt for about GBP 4,000 (cost, not a sale price)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Where it is sold or used
- United Kingdom
- Customers and pilots
- Commercial weed-mapping service on UK farms
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Small Robot Company enters liquidation
Hort News reported the maker of Tom, Dick and Harry had gone into liquidation.
Hort News - Small Robot Company shows Tom
Farmers Weekly described the Tom prototype mapping crops for the Wilma AI system.
Farmers Weekly
Sources
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