Autopoietic sculpture is a sculptural object that has the ability to replace regenerate, or otherwise garner energy from the environment to reproduce itself.
Zgodlocator – Herwig Weiser - dataisnature.com 
It is not absolutely necessary that the object is motorised in such a way that it is able to reproduce itself - but it must in some sense directly Motivate it's own reproduction. The object should inspire a feeling of autonomy - and this feeling is not necessarily best expressed through simple robotics.
Autopoietic Sculpture is a term I used to describe Plantoid and similar Daobots. Below I list a quick history of the use of this term as far as I've been able to research:
Herwig Weiser
All my installations could be also seen as cinematic installations – the effects of the light passing through the animated chemicals can be seen as a kind of expanded cinema. ‘Ambiguous Cut Into Space of Conjecture’ is primarily an electro-chemical projection device transformed into an Autopoietic Sculpture - dataisnature.com
Dali
To my knowledge, mirror neurons haven’t been discovered in the beginning of the 1980s (or if there were discovered by a few labs, the knowledge didn’t enter the public domain, and Dali would unlikely know it; all that makes this work by Dali fairly prophetic.
He basically got it all right, and also managed to show in a incredibly powerful yet beautiful way that we are all ‘walking mirrors’, reflecting each other, and thus sensing our own reflections, ad infinity – and autopoietic therefore (even Douglas Hofstadter didn’t make this final conclusion, in his Strange Loop, and that book was published in 2007!) - artmirrorsart.wordpress.com
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