Food processing automation is the standard way of doing business - think about each item on the supermarket shelf, and how it got there. Essentially nothing is hand-made and as you go up in volumes you tend towards 24/7 factory operations. And of course there are efficiencies to be gained at scale.

Robots tend to be for lower-volume activities.

There is always work been done - for example on delicate fruit there are a host of companies and machines that do things like sorting and even picking. https://www.compacsort.com is a good example.

Robots tend to be for lower-volume: https://www.roboticsplus.co.nz/robotic-apple-packing

But for foods like potatoes the sorting machinery is pretty simple as spuds are easy to handle.

On the farm there are lots of solutions for automating the various process they have. The larger the farm the more is automated.

For example on a dairy farm you'll see milking machines that range from expensive robots (small, European farms) that allow no-touch operation, to inline or rotary milkers that allow decent volume with low/no touch etc.

https://www.waikatomilking.com/products/milking-parlors/rota...