Agricultural Robots

These were simply called Agricultural Machinery but in today's terms, they would be called Robots.

Many companies and many people in the Industrial Midwest were employed in making them, and now they are used in all of the affluent countries.

An example is a threshing machine, that also employed a team of horses and a number of men with pitchforks. Robots can also include other things in an integrated system.

But they tend to reduce the number of additional things required as they get improved. An example here is the modern Combine.

The only exception I know of here is the rice paddies where wheeled vehicles could not be used - but I have not searched rice farming machinery, to make sure.