This week brought exciting news about artificial intelligence and robots helping farmers around the world. The big story was at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (United States), where companies showed off amazing new farm machines that can work by themselves. These AI-powered robots are getting smarter at doing jobs that are hard and tiring for people, like pulling weeds, picking crops, and spraying plants.

One of the coolest new machines is from Kubota, a big equipment company. They showed a tractor that drives itself in the fields without a person controlling it. They also made a special robot called KVPR that can change shape and move in different directions to handle different farm jobs. Another company called John Deere proved that their autonomous harvester can actually do a better job than people, picking crops 20 to 30 percent more efficiently.

A smaller company called Padma AgRobotics in the United States has been busy building robots that solve real farmer problems. They made a weed-pulling robot, a machine that can harvest cilantro (a type of herb), and even an AI scarecrow that moves around to scare birds away from crops. The company started with just two people in a garage but now has a real office and works with several farms.

The reason all this robot activity is happening is simple: farms don't have enough workers. The average farmer in the United States is now 58 years old, and young people don't always want to do the hard farm work anymore. AI and robots can do this difficult work without getting tired, which helps farmers keep growing food.

Scientists are also working on AI programs that help farmers make smarter decisions. Researchers in North Carolina (United States) are building a smart computer system that can help farmers figure out how to turn leftover crops into useful things like fuel. These new technologies show that farming is changing in a big way, with artificial intelligence and robots becoming important partners to farmers.