Playing Cogmind, I've been getting little, pleasant flashbacks to an old favorite board game: RoboRally
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally .
I just read Joshua's Hammerbot post:
https://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=1080.0 , and I had to make the connection, because one of the original bot's in RoboRally is Hammerbot!
Super different game, but with lots of fun similarities: rogue bots attempting to escape or fight through their factory/complex, aiming for somewhat randomized level design and goals, modular part-based upgrades, damage/corruption randomizing moves. Thought I'd see if anyone else had played RoboRally, or made the association