Plants have been observed to interact with the environment in ways that one scientists has claimed proves they are conscious. Paco Calvo, a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, has been researching plant intelligence and problem-solving for years, finding the mimosa appears to'learn from experience' when it stops folding up. 'In psychology that's the most basic form of learning,' Calvo told DailyMail.com. 'This pattern of folding, then not folding any more, is consistent with the idea that this plant has learned something as a result of experience, not from its genes.' The professor also noted that other plants communicate with each other through chemicals, solve problems, and even appear to have memories.

The robotic geodesic sphere seen inching along Hampstead road in London. Cities like London can often feel like urban jungles with scarce amounts of green spaces. But researchers from the Interactive Architecture Lab at University College London are exploring a future scenario where "cybernetic lifeforms" that are "half garden and half machine" roam our urban cityscapes, co-existing alongside us. Hortum machina B is a robotic geodesic sphere covered in plants. The exoskeleton structure contains twelve garden modules, each of which is planted with native British species.