Platcore

You're on to something really crazy here!
- Wall hanging - double jump - slams (which go boom) - ceiling grapple (electric roof counters) - robots (with crappy AI) that enter the arena with you and die off pretty early just to emphasise on the danger your dealing with.
Maybe an observatory window on the background where robots from the half of fame sit and observe you (maybe even animate them to clap, or laugh, or bang their heads together when everything starts falling apart).
Things that seem unnecessary would give that sense of depth.

In Firefox/windows it lags badly enough to be unplayable. Chrome/windows no problems.

As cool as it looks and sounds, it ends up just being another avoider and couldn't hold my interest. What's the point of cogs and experience? Have upgrades! Double jump, health regen, that sort of thing. It'd give me some motivation to keep one alive and get cogs.

Well I was rooting for you after I read your description, and enjoyed it for the first 10 minutes, but this game is nothing but a tease of what could have been. Sorry if that's harsh, but that is how I felt. First it seems there is nothing more to cogs than using it to customize your bot to look how you want it. Also experience is just something to see how high of a level you can get and considering you are only competing vs yourself in the hall of fame, it doesn't provide much incentive. Really in my opinion had you added a wide variety of upgrades with leveling up and and a way to compare your bots with others, this game may have been a hit, but as it stands it falls in the mediocre category, being nothing more than an avoid and dress me up game. With that said I'm extremely dissapointed with it especially after reading your description.

I'm loving the soundtrack being linked to the AI, that's a really nice touch

I found I died to the ceiling crushers a lot, my eyes were so drawn to the bottom of the screen I didn't see the warnings coming from the top :(