Bionaut Labs

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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6.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

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CompanyMedical DevicesRoboticsHealthcareBiotechnologyDrug DeliveryNeurologyMicro-RoboticsLife Sciences

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

Composite quality — 6.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

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Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

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LinkedIn

Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

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.'
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: '0.20'
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'