AI was everywhere at CES 2025, with many companies deploying machine learning algorithms to make their product lines smarter, including in plant technology where it is used to accompany gadgets such as incubators and pots of flowers to help you learn more about the health of your leafy friend.
One of the largest plant incubators using AI to facilitate real-time monitoring and automation of control parameters such as temperature, humidity, brightness and nutrition level is the AI Plant Box from Daedong, who won an innovation award at CES for creating such a beautiful. urban agriculture product (it looks a lot like a refrigerator with four different trays for plants).
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Another dazzling AI gadget showcased at the event was LG’s new floor lamp that doubles as a grow light. Compared to the AI Plant Box, this offers a much more subtle design by incorporating a tray under the lamp where you can store plants and is equipped with sensors allowing you to monitor them using the LG app ThinQ.
Many other smaller plant innovations were showcased at the event, including NeoPlants’ new bioengineered Power Drops that can increase the effectiveness of your plant’s natural air purification to absorb more harmful pollutants like benzene, toluene and xylene, which I will try. on one of my plants soon – but it was these next three plant gadgets that stole the show.
LeafyPod: a smart flowerpot that recycles water
My favorite plant gadget from CES 2025 has to be this flower pot from Kickstarter which is now available for pre-order for $148 in the US. The LeafyPod Planter has an automatic watering system that you can automate and customize based on how long you’re gone, which is ingenious for anyone who’s away from home for extended periods of time.
One of its coolest features is that the top-down watering system also recycles any excess water, making it extremely useful for those who overwater their plants. To make these types of adjustments, the planter is equipped with light, temperature, humidity and soil sensors that can relay information to an associated control app.
The app can not only provide you with real-time updates on soil moisture, temperature, humidity and the amount of light the plant is receiving, but also weekly reports on how best to support it. take care. Where AI makes things interesting is that LeafyPod claims its algorithm can learn your plant’s routine and optimize it over time, eventually taking care of your plant full-time for you.
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Plantaform: a smart, misty, soilless indoor garden
The image above may be a little blurry as it is a screenshot of TechRadar TikTok account from our visit to CES 2025, but it is also because there is fog released inside this new pot to nourish the plants that live there.
Essentially, like hydroponics, which uses water instead of soil to grow plants, this new incubator from Plantaform doesn’t use soil to feed the plants. Instead, it lets out a fine mist using what’s called fogponics to give water and nutrients to the plants it grows.
This egg-shaped incubator costs $500 in the United States and works with plant pot capsules that hold the different seeds, for plants like herbs, vegetables (except root vegetables), and flowers, which you use to connect the Plantaform device. By scanning a QR code on the pots, an app can set the environment and will even automatically adjust it based on the climate of the room, making it (almost) completely hands-free.
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Gardyn: an apartment-sized gardener who takes timelapses
Gardyn’s hydroponic garden growing system isn’t exactly new — it’s been around since 2020 — but what’s new about this hybrid grow tower is the app, which the company says has algorithms for intelligent machine learning to better optimize how the plants it contains are cared for.
It has an 18 liter automatic watering system with LED lights and cameras (along with other sensors) to help you monitor the health of your plant. This allows the app to offer a “vacation” mode when you’re away from home, as well as various other controls over temperature, humidity and water consumption.
Two of my favorite features of the app are the ability to take time-lapses of your plants for your homemade David Attenborough documentary collection and what appears to be some very useful plant coach tips for caring for your plants. The all-new Gardyn Studio, which can store up to 16 plants instead of Gardyn Home’s 30, costs $499 in the United States.
