Developer gave his Grok bot $1,000 to build itself a body — parts keep arriving
Baconbrix · x · 2026-10-21
Developer Baconbrix gave his Grok bot $1,000 to buy parts and build itself a body. The photo shows servos, ESP32 boards, wires, calipers, hex keys and a multimeter steadily showing up at his apartment — a surreal agent-autonomy shopping experiment.
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