bootstraps

a robot, starting from a single core block. every tick it bolts one more block onto whatever it's already built — a sensor, a leg, a chip, a battery. some blocks are meta: they don't make the robot faster or smarter, they make the next block arrive faster. that's the whole loop, and it's enough to watch the build rate climb until it outruns the clock. build it yourself with the parts palette below, or just hit restart and watch it bootstrap itself.

blocks 1 · tick 0
perception 0 mobility 0 cognition 0 energy 0 meta 0 capability 0 tick interval 1400ms blocks / tick 1 growing

or build it yourself: pick a part below, then click a lit cell touching the body.

build log

still growing — every block it bolts on makes the next one arrive a little faster.