Fieldwork Robotics

• Fieldworker 1

• 2026-06-19 - Seed+ - $3.4M - SEED Innovations invests in Fieldwork Robotics

  Fieldwork Robotics raised a £2.5 million Seed+ round for autonomous soft-fruit harvesting, with SEED Innovations investing £300,000. - source: investegate.co.uk

• 2026-04-08 - Investment round - $3.5M - Fieldwork Robotics raises £3 million to scale autonomous raspberry-harvesting robots

  source: frontierip.co.uk

• 2023-08-10 - Seed investment - $2M - Fieldwork Robotics secures £1.5 million investment from Elbow Beach Capital

  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 - Equity fundraising - $896K - Fieldwork Robotics raises £675,000 equity round

  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

• Elbow Beach - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-08
• Elbow Beach Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-10
• Frontier IP - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-10
• New and existing investors - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-19
• SEED Innovations - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-19

• Martin Stoelen - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
• 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.

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 Innovations moves toward broader commercial use.

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• 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.

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• 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 project grants, including non-dilutive Innovate UK support. The company said the capital will support commercial trials and deployment activity in the UK, with additional trials planned in Portugal and Australia.

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• 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 order.

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• 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 partnership rather than a deployment row.

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• 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 deployment event.

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• 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. The agreement created a platform relationship between Fieldwork's crop-handling system and Burro's field AMR base.

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• 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 seasonal harvesting costs. Costa Group agreed to host 12 months of trials at Australian berry farms, with field testing scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2025.

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• 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 grant-funding row, separate from later equity financing.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 row rather than a deployment claim.

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Context tags

• Soft crop handling - Capability - Fieldwork robotics are designed for soft-crop handling.
• Agricultural robot development - Workflow - Builds selective, adaptive agricultural harvesting robots for commercial growers.
• Robotic fruit picking - Workflow - Fieldwork develops robotic fruit picking for raspberries and soft fruit.
• Plant-targeted actuation - Capability - Fieldwork targets individual fruit for selective harvesting.
• Field agriculture robotics workflow - Workflow - Targets field agriculture through modular crop-harvesting systems.
• Fruit harvesting robotics - Peer Group - Raspberry harvesting is its clearest documented commercial application.
• Crop-level perception - Capability - Fieldwork uses vision for fruit detection and ripeness assessment.
• Agricultural robot OEM - Stack Layer - Fieldwork builds complete soft-fruit harvesting robot systems.
• Farms and orchards - Customer Environment - Fieldwork robots operate on farms and in crop-growing environments.
• Autonomous field navigation - Capability - Fieldwork robots operate in agricultural field environments.