# Tom at Wimpole Estate: deployment

Canonical ID: `7341390e-be1a-41ae-b3f1-3f7e0449669c`

Small Robot Company ran the Tom monitoring robot and Dick weeding prototype at the National Trust's Wimpole Estate (Wimpole Home Farm, a roughly 1,500-acre organic farm) in Cambridgeshire, named as a customer at the April 2021 commercial launch. The deployment ended with the company's February 2024 liquidation. The pilot did not convert.

## Key facts

- **Operator:** National Trust (Wimpole Home Farm)

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-07-09_

- **Slug:** src-tom-wimpole-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:** [Wimpole Estate](/locations/wimpole-estate.md) (id: `fdc24e82-b5c4-4ff8-91f1-5d084b100ccd`)
- **First seen:** 2021-04-29T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. **Small Robot Company launches first commercial robot** · https://medium.com/smallrobotcompany/small-robot-company-launches-first-commercial-robot-0286cf1bac6b · 2021-04-29

## Common questions

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

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

### Who operates Tom at Wimpole 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 Wimpole Estate go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting April 29, 2021 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

### Is the Tom deployment at Wimpole 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 Wimpole 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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