Bionaut Labs is a clinical-stage medical robotics company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, developing "Bionauts" — remote-controlled, magnetically steered microscale robots roughly the size of a grain of rice that travel through tissue to deliver drugs, biologics and nucleic acids directly to targets deep in the brain and central nervous system. Founded in 2016 by CEO Michael Shpigelmacher, the company is pursuing treatments for malignant glioma, Dandy-Walker syndrome, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, and has raised more than $80 million from investors including Khosla Ventures. Its product is a therapeutic device and navigation platform regulated as a medical device, not software sold to developers: Bionaut Labs operates no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract of any kind.
Bionaut Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Medical Devices, Robotics, Healthcare, and Biotechnology.
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aid: bionaut-labs
name: Bionaut Labs
description: 'Bionaut Labs is a clinical-stage medical robotics company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, developing
"Bionauts" — remote-controlled, magnetically steered microscale robots roughly the size of a grain of rice that travel through
tissue to deliver drugs, biologics and nucleic acids directly to targets deep in the brain and central nervous system. Founded
in 2016 by CEO Michael Shpigelmacher, the company is pursuing treatments for malignant glioma, Dandy-Walker syndrome, Parkinson''s
disease and Huntington''s disease, and has raised more than $80 million from investors including Khosla Ventures. Its product
is a therapeutic device and navigation platform regulated as a medical device, not software sold to developers: Bionaut
Labs operates no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract of any kind.'
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://www.bionautlabs.com/images/bionaut-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bionaut-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-07'
modified: '2026-08-07'
tags:
- Company
- Medical Devices
- Robotics
- Healthcare
- Biotechnology
- Drug Delivery
- Neurology
- Micro-Robotics
- Life Sciences
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/bionaut-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.bionautlabs.com/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bionaut-labs
- type: SecondaryMarket
url: https://forgeglobal.com/bionaut-labs_stock/
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/bionaut-labs-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-07'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 2
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: not-a-software-company
detail: Bionaut Labs builds a magnetically steered micro-robot drug-delivery device regulated as a medical device, and its
entire website now serves the same 790-byte logo placeholder for every path — /newsroom, /team/*, /.well-known/* and /openapi.json
all return byte-identical HTML to a nonsense control path — so there is no developer surface, and no documentation surface
at all, to read.
evidence:
- url: https://www.bionautlabs.com/
status: 200
- url: https://bionautlabs.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 200
- url: https://bionautlabs.com/openapi.json
status: 200
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/bionaut-labs/repos
status: 200
- url: https://api.bionautlabs.com/
status: 0
checked: '2026-08-07'
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