Facts

• Segment: Agriculture
• Country: United Kingdom
• Founded: 2016
• Website: https://fieldworkrobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Fieldwork Robotics develops autonomous harvesting robots for soft fruit farms. Its raspberry-harvesting system uses machine vision, soft grippers and multiple arms to identify ripe berries and pick them without damaging the crop.

Market context

Fieldwork Robotics is one of the clearer specialist agri-robotics companies moving from technical validation toward commercial farm deployment. It matters because soft-fruit harvesting is a narrow but commercially legible robotics lane where labour shortages, waste reduction, and predictable harvest economics create a strong adoption case.

Facts

• Website: https://fieldworkrobotics.com/
• HQ: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
• Founded: 2016
• Segment: Agriculture
• Known funding rounds: 4

Funding

• 2026-06-19 - Seed+ - $3M - SEED Innovations invests in Fieldwork Robotics - source: investegate.co.uk
• 2026-04-08 - Investment round - $3M - Fieldwork Robotics raises £3 million to scale autonomous raspberry-harvesting robots - source: frontierip.co.uk
• 2026-03-23 - Grant - Fieldwork Robotics receives ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund support - source: refed.org
• 2023-12-21 - Grant - $796K - Fieldwork Robotics wins Innovate UK BerryBot grant to accelerate robot development - source: fieldworkrobotics.com

Investors

• SEED Innovations - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-19
• Elbow Beach - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
• ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• Innovate UK - Lead - Government / Public - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-12-21

Autonomous soft-fruit harvesting robot builder

Fieldwork Robotics develops autonomous harvesting robots for soft fruit, led by raspberry-picking systems using arms, 3D cameras, sensors and machine learning.

• Target environment: Berry farms, soft-fruit growing sites, polytunnels, orchards and commercial agricultural fields.
• Deployment model: Agricultural robot development and farm trials, moving toward commercial deployment through grower partnerships and funding-backed scale-up.
• Customer context: Soft-fruit growers, agricultural producers, farm operators and labour-constrained berry supply chains.
• Workflow context: Fruit detection, ripeness assessment, robotic picking, soft-crop handling and autonomous harvesting.
• Commercial maturity: Development-to-commercialization stage, with trials and scale-up funding supporting autonomous raspberry-harvesting deployment.
• Market position: Specialist agriculture robotics company focused on selective soft-fruit harvesting rather than broad farm automation.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on picking speed, fruit damage rates, seasonality, crop variability, field conditions, unit economics and grower trust.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes fruit-harvesting robots, crop-level perception, agricultural labour automation and soft-gripper field robotics.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-19 - Funding - SEED Innovations invests in Fieldwork Robotics - Fieldwork Robotics develops agricultural robots for harvesting soft fruit.
• 2026-04-16 - Partnership - Fieldwork Robotics partners with Dynium for autonomous farm platforms - Dynium brings autonomous vehicle platforms designed for polytunnel and off-highway use.
• 2026-04-08 - Funding - Fieldwork Robotics raises £3 million to scale autonomous raspberry-harvesting robots - Fieldwork Robotics raised £3 million to scale autonomous raspberry-harvesting robots and move from technology…
• 2026-03-23 - Funding - Fieldwork Robotics receives ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund support - ReFED announced support for Fieldwork Robotics through its Catalytic Grant Fund.
• 2025-10-27 - Partnership - Fieldwork Robotics partners with Portuguese Research Centre for Sustainability - Fieldwork partnered with the Research Centre for Sustainability on robotics R&D activity in Portugal.
• 2025-10-14 - Regulatory - Fieldwork Robotics receives ANI R&D suitability certification in Portugal - Fieldwork said it received Portugal's Selo de Idoneidade em I&D from the National Innovation Agency.
• 2024-11-13 - Partnership - Fieldwork Robotics signs collaboration agreement with Burro - Fieldwork signed a collaboration agreement with Burro to pair its harvesting system with Burro's autonomous mobile robot base.
• 2024-08-29 - Product Launch - Fieldwork Robotics launches Fieldworker 1 and starts collaboration with Costa Group - Fieldwork introduced Fieldworker 1 as a new robotic harvesting model built for raspberry picking at hum…
• 2023-12-21 - Funding - Fieldwork Robotics wins Innovate UK BerryBot grant to accelerate robot development - Fieldwork was awarded a government-backed grant for the BerryBot project to accelerate development of its harve…
• 2019-05-28 - Demonstration - Fieldwork Robotics completes initial field trials of raspberry-harvesting robot system - Fieldwork completed initial field trials of its raspberry-harvesting robot system.

Team

• Martin Stoelen - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer - Founder row explains Fieldwork's origin in agricultural robotics and soft-fruit harvesting automation.
• David Fulton - Chief Executive Officer - Current operating leader as Fieldwork Robotics moves from technology validation toward scale-up and commercial adoption of autonomous raspberry harvesting robots.
• Dr. Martin Stoelen - Founder and CSO

Context tags

• Soft crop handling - Capability - Fieldwork robotics are designed for soft-crop handling.
• Fruit harvesting robotics - Peer Group - Fieldwork Robotics builds soft-fruit harvesting systems.
• Robotic fruit picking - Workflow - Fieldwork develops robotic fruit picking for raspberries and soft fruit.
• Agricultural robot OEM - Stack Layer - Fieldwork builds complete soft-fruit harvesting robot systems.
• Crop-level perception - Capability - Fieldwork uses vision for fruit detection and ripeness assessment.
• Plant-targeted actuation - Capability - Fieldwork targets individual fruit for selective harvesting.
• Autonomous field navigation - Capability - Fieldwork robots operate in agricultural field environments.
• Farms and orchards - Customer Environment - Fieldwork robots operate on farms and in crop-growing environments.

Articles

• 2026-04-08 - A wider map for agricultural robotics - The biggest rounds are still modest, but 2026 funding is spreading across orchard harvesting, weed control, greenhouse automation and machine autonomy. - Korthos: /re…