Plantbot is a hybrid artificial life form combining plants, soil, multiple large-scale language models (LLMs), and mobile robotics. This project aims to create a movable plant prototype, “Plantbot (tentative),” by integrating natural systems composed of plants and soil bacteria with artificial mobile robots, exploring its potential.

In addition to making the plant mobile, it is also made interactive by combining it with LLMs. By sensing the condition of the plant and soil as well as environmental data, and using this information along with human interaction, the plant robot will act autonomously. The new physical form created from the plant and the mobile robot, combined with LLMs, will examine what kind of personalities emerge, how it grows through interactions with people, and what kind of relationships develop.

Plantbot is not just a “talking robot with a plant” but includes several agents using large-scale language models (GPT) inside. These agents communicate with each other, deciding on Plantbot’s movements and conversations autonomously.

These technologies are not only experimental projects aiming to extend ecosystems but are applicable to living products such as moving plantations in parks or conversational houseplants in homes, installing autonomy in anything and everything. For inquiries or requests regarding Plantbot or living products, please contact us through our contact page.

Ecosystem as it could be

The potential ecosystems that can establish in a particular area are not always singular. Minor differences, such as part of the ground being concrete or a slightly stronger wind flow, can significantly alter the subsequent form of the ecosystem. The actors in an ecosystem are not only biological life but also artifacts can become part of it. However, it is not easy to see or be aware of the ’ecosystem that could have been’ behind the one that is present. This Plantbot project is an attempt to explore such potential ecosystems.

When this small ecosystem made up of plants and soil bacteria acquires the ability to move around and interact, where will this new entity go? Will it coexist in human social networks, or will it return to the forest to create a new ecosystem? We hope to glimpse the possibilities.