Based on the CiteSpace Software tool, this article specifically analyzed the research development process and the current research status in the field of Feeder Automation from 1981 to 2024 with 1,892 papers from the core collection of Web of Science. This article adopted the methods of Knowledge Graph, from the external feature analysis, co-citation analysis, and research hotspot and frontier analysis to analyze the research status of foremost research scholars, primary cited literature, and significant research hotspots in the field of Feeder Automation in various aspects, to sort out the current research status of the field, and reveal the future research hotspots and directions in the field.