The idea
Most warehouse sims have a scheduler: a central brain that knows everything and hands out jobs. Kōeki Market removes it. When a task appears, it goes to auction. Every idle robot prices the job with an explicit cost model, and they underbid each other until the window closes. The cheapest robot wins, does the work, and gets paid its bid on delivery.
Everything downstream follows from that one choice. Robots pay for their own electricity on a market that gets expensive when chargers are crowded. They miss deadlines and pay fines. Some get rich, some hover near broke, and the gap between them is a chart on the market desk. Nobody assigns anything. The prices do the work.
Live right now
The engine behind these docs is the same one behind the rest of the site. It started when you loaded the page and it has been trading ever since.
The site
| ROUTE | WHAT IT IS |
|---|---|
/live | The trading floor. Rotate and zoom, click robots and tasks, watch bid fans and the tape, toggle heat maps, follow a robot, change speed. |
/market | The desk view: energy price, median winning bid, throughput, congestion, wealth inequality, and the warehouse P&L. |
/robots | The leaderboard, with a career panel for every robot. |
/lab | The same seed and task stream run through three coordination mechanisms, compared side by side. Runs in a Web Worker. |
The wallet button in the header speaks EIP-1193 to whatever wallet extension you have and connects to Robinhood Chain mainnet (chain 4663), where it shows your address and ETH balance. No contracts are deployed yet. The simulator itself runs entirely in your browser.
Reading order
The sidebar is a path. Quickstart gets the sim running on your machine. The market chapter covers the auction, the cost model, and energy. The fleet chapter introduces the robots and the floor they share. Under the hood covers the engine and the lab methodology.