Robotanica is a mobile app that uses AI to recommend ornamental plant combinations, overlay realistic plant models onto photos of a garden, and generate detailed planting plans with exact seedling quantities. Users can visualize how plants will look in their space and order the selected seedlings from partnered nurseries with a single tap, while vendors can showcase their inventory directly within customers’ garden contexts.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Choosing ornamental plants and designing planting layouts is time‑consuming, often requiring multiple tools to visualize how plants will look in a specific garden, calculate quantities, and place orders with suppliers. This leads to guesswork, mismatched plant selections, and fragmented purchasing processes for both consumers and plant nurseries.
Solution
Robotanica offers a mobile app that combines AI‑driven plant selection, realistic photo overlays, and automated planting plans into a single workflow. Users upload a photo of their garden, and the app generates visualizations of real plant species positioned in the space, suggesting harmonious combinations based on site conditions. The generated plan includes precise seedling quantities and layout coordinates, which can be ordered from partnered nurseries with a single tap. For vendors, the platform provides a digital showcase that places their inventory directly into customers’ garden contexts, streamlining sales and reducing the need for manual design consultations.
Target Audience
Primary users are homeowners, landscape hobbyists, and small‑scale designers seeking a visual, end‑to‑end planting solution, while ornamental plant nurseries and garden centers use the platform to showcase and sell their stock directly within customers’ garden contexts.
Features
- AI algorithm that recommends plant combinations suited to the uploaded garden photo and environmental parameters
- Real‑time photorealistic overlay of actual plant models onto user‑provided images for accurate visual planning
- Automated planting plan generation with exact seedling counts and spatial layout coordinates
- One‑click ordering integration that pulls available inventory from partnered nurseries for instant purchase
- Mobile‑first interface available on iOS and Android, supporting geolocation to suggest region‑appropriate species
- Vendor partnership portal that syncs nursery catalogs and enables direct sales through the app