Plant-o-bot

Plant-o-bots are a type of Quintesson technology from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Courtesy of Dr. Seuss's Topiary, Inc.

Plant-o-bots were a type of mechanical plants that could be engineered to grow on a planetary environment.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

According to the Quintesson Journal, the Quintessons enhanced primitive worlds such as Alaxuu with advanced technology that secretly produced heavy pollution that would result in chemical rains that destroyed the planet's native vegetation. Afterwards, the Quintessons would offer their "aid" by producing plant-o-bots for a price. The Quintesson Journal