Saw this a few days ago. While all the stuff is impressive, and some is pretty ingenious (especially the chicken harvester, which from what I've read actually stresses the birds far less than having humans blundering around trying to catch them). But I do wonder if these things are actually like the dinosaurs, and will not be around that long given their enormous energy consumption. An old colleague works in robotics and some of the stuff he produces for agricultural operations is the exact antithesis of the monsters - small autonomous robots that can work through a crop and pick, or remove individual items using artificial vision to select appropriately. Potentially much less energy intensive, and because robotics is so pervasive now, likely to be ever cheaper in real terms.
Maybe robots are the mammals to the mechanical dinosaurs?
