# Tom at Leckford Estate: deployment

Canonical ID: `e0a9eb76-de9e-42ba-938b-56a422809cad`

Small Robot Company's flagship trial ran on the Waitrose & Partners farm at the Leckford Estate, Hampshire, beginning with a three-year trial announced December 2018 that tested the Tom monitoring robot alongside the Dick and Harry prototypes. Leckford remained a cited customer through 2022. The deployment ended when Small Robot Company entered liquidation on February 1, 2024. The pilot did not convert.

## Key facts

- **Operator:** Waitrose & Partners (John Lewis Partnership)

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-07-09_

- **Slug:** src-tom-leckford-estate
- **Status:** ended
- **Model:** [Tom](/models/small-robot-company-tom.md) (id: `18260145-b250-443c-b91f-69c21cf811e0`)
- **Company:** [Small Robot Company](/companies/small-robot-company.md) (id: `79993463-bd27-4719-8ae5-1d4b08d6a338`)
- **Location:** [Leckford Estate](/locations/leckford-estate.md) (id: `2c6bd6b9-22b8-48cd-a6b8-15e3af013020`)
- **First seen:** 2018-12-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (2)

1. **Farming robots begin trial at the Waitrose & Partners farm in Leckford** · https://medium.com/smallrobotcompany/robocrop-farming-robots-begin-trial-at-the-waitrose-partners-farm-in-leckford-512c26fe0923 · 2018-12-10
2. **Agtech startup Small Robot Company shutting down** · https://www.therobotreport.com/agtech-startup-small-robot-company-shutting-down/ · 2024-02-05

## Common questions

### What is the Tom deployment at Leckford Estate?

Tom, built by Small Robot Company, is recorded as a deployment at Leckford Estate on the DEPLOY registry. Small Robot Company operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates Tom at Leckford Estate?

Small Robot Company, the manufacturer of Tom, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### When did the Tom deployment at Leckford Estate go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting December 10, 2018 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

### Is the Tom deployment at Leckford Estate still active?

As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is no longer operating at this location.

### Have there been incidents at the Tom deployment at Leckford Estate?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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