Plant-o-bot

Plantobots were a type of mechanical plants that could be engineered to grow on a planetary environment.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon

According to the Quintesson Journal, the Quintessons enhanced primitive worlds 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 plantobots for a price. The Quintesson Journal

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