A highlight for 2000 was ARW's residency in Nottingham, England to develop and present the Amorphic Landscape. Between the months of August and October 2000, Chico MacMurtrie, artistic director of Amorphic Robot Works brought a ten-year vision to completion giving the audience an opportunity for a total art experience. During their residency in Nottingham, Chico and ARW constructed an environment for a large portion of the Amorphic Robot family to live in. In addition MacMurtrie and other members of ARW conducted workshops worked with various local youth groups in the development of an electronic/remote controlled dog monkey.

The Landscape project debuted during the Now2000 festival in Nottingham, October 25-28th, 2000, appeared at the Muffathalle in Munich November 16-19, 2000, during the DONAU Festival in Krems, Austria April 19-27 2002, and at the Cultural Capital Of Europe Festival in Lille France December 2003-March 2004.

Chico's ideas about the landscape:

"It is my vision to realize an environmental landscape for the members of my existing society to interact and move with. The landscape in itself will be an entirely new sculpture, with the capacity to move on its own. This kinetic feature of the landscape will depict the metaphorical and transformational view of what the earth has to offer. The experience of the Amorphic Landscape will be exaggerated by the various sound elements intrinsic to the sculpture. The sounds correlate to the movement of masses, a sort of tectonic symphony mimicking the natural development of our planet. The capacity for the environment to change height size and volume allows for maximum viewing experience.

In its first phase, the landscape appears solitary and moving, void of humanoid forms. The overall piece resembles an aerial topographical view of a mountain range. Within the outside surface of the enviroment lies a computer control hydraulically driven mechanical structure. An inflatable section resembling a mountaintop will then deflate and be pulled to one side allowing passage for the Dog Monkey's journey along the path. This featured machine encounters all the other members of the Amorphic Society during his trip and introduces one by one the cast of Amorphic machines, each of whose birth into the Landscape is unique. Each machine's modular section of the landscape will have a unique way in which it allows the machine to appear. Once ejected, each machine appears to affect its surrounding environment. Each section of landscape that the machine emerges from has its unique way of activating and agitating its surface quality. The path will ultimately lead to a gradually eroding mountain, which uncovers in its place a Percussive House. This featured sculpture represents the symbol of modern societies' replacement for the mountain, which first provided shelter for the humans in its caves.

Other elements to be completed for the Landscape project when funding permits will be the Robotic growing, breathing Tree, which will appear as the life-giving element in the Landscape. Water will be dripping from the branches into a pool from which life emerges. Servo-controlled beams of light send out from the Tree will be the initial call for the other members of the Ancestral Path to come to life. The Central Mountain machine, the most dynamic element, based on a 6-cylinder platform can reach multiple locations and configurations thereby showing it's graceful movements the continuous change of our natural environment."