Fieldwork Robotics Timeline

Events

• 2026-06-19 - Funding - SEED Innovations invests in Fieldwork Robotics - Fieldwork Robotics develops agricultural robots for harvesting soft fruit. The investment added capital for a robotics startup focused on automated field work. The capital supports agricultural, food-production or outdoor automation workflows as SEED… - source: investegate.co.uk
• 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. The collaboration gives Fieldwork customers more base-platform options for robotic harvesting deployments. - source: roboticsandautomationnews.com
• 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 validation toward commercial farm adoption. The funding includes a £2.2 million equity round led by Elbow Beach, supplemented by £1.7 million in… - source: frontierip.co.uk
• 2026-03-23 - Award - Fieldwork Robotics receives ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund support - ReFED announced support for Fieldwork Robotics through its Catalytic Grant Fund. The funding supports Fieldwork Robotics' food-waste and labor-shortage focused harvesting automation work. This is grant-style funding, not a procurement award or commercial… - source: refed.org
• 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. The partnership supports the company's technical and field-development footprint outside the UK. This is best treated as a research and development… - source: fieldworkrobotics.com
• 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. The certification supports the company's formal R&D presence and activity in Portugal. This is a regulatory / eligibility milestone rather than a commercial… - source: fieldworkrobotics.com
• 2024-11-13 - Partnership - Fieldwork Robotics signs collaboration agreement with Burro - Fieldwork Robotics signed a collaboration agreement with Burro to pair its harvesting system with Burro's autonomous mobile robot base. The combined system completed field trials at Place UK and was planned for further trials with Costa Group in Australia.… - source: fieldworkrobotics.com
• 2024-08-29 - Product Launch - Fieldwork Robotics launches Fieldworker 1 with Costa trials - Fieldwork Robotics launched Fieldworker 1 on August 29, 2024, saying the redesigned robot could harvest raspberries at human-comparable speed and quality. The AI-enabled model is intended to give growers a predictable cost per berry and improve control over… - source: fieldworkrobotics.com
• 2023-12-21 - Award - 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 harvesting robots. The project was supported by Innovate UK and linked to further development of autonomous harvesting capability. This is a… - source: fieldworkrobotics.com
• 2023-08-10 - Funding - Fieldwork Robotics secures £1.5 million investment from Elbow Beach Capital - Seed investment: GBP 1,500,000. Elbow Beach Capital led or provided the financing. Fieldwork Robotics secured a £1.5 million investment from Elbow Beach Capital to advance and deploy its AI-supported agricultural harvesting robots. - source: investegate.co.uk
• 2021-03-19 - Funding - Fieldwork Robotics raises £675,000 equity round - Equity fundraising: GBP 675,000. The cited source confirms the completed financing. Fieldwork Robotics raised £675,000 from new and existing investors to accelerate its raspberry-harvesting robot and begin work on a cauliflower-harvesting system. - source: marketscreener.com
• 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. The milestone marked early real-world validation of the company's selective harvesting approach in farm conditions. This is best treated as a demonstration / field-validation… - source: phys.org