An installation featuring a rat king* made of mobile robots that look like rodents. The robots will struggle against one another, though they are inextricably bound together by their tails and the ‘tail’ of tangled wires that supply power. The installation also features various visual elements that support a constructed mythology, related to the crytozoology of rat kings with labor and technology gone awry (in the expanded mural form of the organizing principles of a circuit board drawing). Our project focuses on concepts of robotic labor and autonomy. We address this by expanding upon concepts that we have explored in the past including hypothetical dystopias, pop culture, labor, cryptozoology, and mythology, and the relationships between natural systems and the global expansion of automated labor processes. *Rat kings are cryptozoological phenomena said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, and excrement. The animals consequently grow together while joined at the tails, which are often broken. Most researchers presume the creatures are legendary and that all supposed physical evidence is hoaxed.