A current trend observed in the Anthropocene is the search for bioinspired solutions. Since it became possible to change the quality of the boundary between living and technical systems, more and more life-like technical products have been developed in recent years. Using five plant-inspired developments of motile technical systems for architecture and soft-robotics, we show how the boundary between living and technical systems undulates, shifts, perforates, blurs, or dissolves with increasing life-likeness. We discuss what causes theses changes in the boundary and how this contributes to the overall aim to achieve higher resilience, robustness, and improved esthetics of plant-inspired products. Inspiration from living systems that make efficient and economic use of materials and energy and are fully recyclable after “service time” may additionally contribute to sustainable material use, one of the major challenges in the Anthropocene.

在人类世中观察到的当前趋势是寻找仿生解决方案。由于改变生活和技术系统之间边界的质量成为可能，近年来越来越多的栩栩如生的技术产品被开发出来。使用五个受植物启发的建筑和软机器人运动技术系统的发展，我们展示了生活和技术系统之间的边界如何随着越来越逼真的人而波动、移动、穿孔、模糊或溶解。我们讨论了导致这些边界变化的原因，以及这如何有助于实现植物灵感产品的更高弹性、坚固性和改进美学的总体目标。