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Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics, a Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary, designs advanced mobile robots including Spot (agile quadruped for dynamic sensing and industrial inspection), Atlas (electric humanoid for manufacturing), Stretch (warehouse case-handling robot), and the Orbit enterprise fleet management platform. Boston Dynamics publishes a public, open-source Spot SDK (Python and C++) on GitHub built on gRPC and Protocol Buffers for developing applications and payloads for Spot; Atlas and Stretch are enterprise products without public APIs.

Boston Dynamics publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Atlas, Boston Dynamics, Fleet Management, gRPC, and Hardware.

The Boston Dynamics catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Boston Dynamics’ developer surface includes support, training material, engineering blog, product news, and 15 more developer resources.

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22.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFree
1 APIs
AtlasBoston DynamicsFleet ManagementgRPCHardwareHumanoid RobotsIndustrial InspectionQuadrupedal RobotsRoboticsSpotStretchWarehouse Automation

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 22.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 4.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · 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 7 / 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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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Boston Dynamics Spot SDK

The Spot SDK is an open-source SDK for developing applications and payloads for the Spot quadruped robot. Built on gRPC and Protocol Buffers, it provides Python and C++ librarie...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Boston Dynamics Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Boston Dynamics Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Boston Dynamics Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Boston Dynamics Context

25 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Boston Dynamics Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Boston Dynamics Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Learn 2

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Training
Training
 Videos
Videos

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 ContactSales
ContactSales

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 News
News
 Partners
Partners
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Products
Products
 SpotProductPage
SpotProductPage
 AtlasProductPage
AtlasProductPage
 StretchProductPage
StretchProductPage
 OrbitProductPage
OrbitProductPage
 CaseStudies
CaseStudies

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: boston-dynamics
name: Boston Dynamics
description: Boston Dynamics, a Hyundai Motor Group subsidiary, designs advanced mobile robots including Spot (agile quadruped
  for dynamic sensing and industrial inspection), Atlas (electric humanoid for manufacturing), Stretch (warehouse case-handling
  robot), and the Orbit enterprise fleet management platform. Boston Dynamics publishes a public, open-source Spot SDK (Python
  and C++) on GitHub built on gRPC and Protocol Buffers for developing applications and payloads for Spot; Atlas and Stretch
  are enterprise products without public APIs.
kind: company
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/boston-dynamics.png
tags:
- Atlas
- Boston Dynamics
- Fleet Management
- gRPC
- Hardware
- Humanoid Robots
- Industrial Inspection
- Quadrupedal Robots
- Robotics
- Spot
- Stretch
- Warehouse Automation
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston-dynamics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: boston-dynamics:spot-sdk
  name: Boston Dynamics Spot SDK
  description: The Spot SDK is an open-source SDK for developing applications and payloads for the Spot quadruped robot. Built
    on gRPC and Protocol Buffers, it provides Python and C++ libraries to control Spot, read sensor and health data, run autonomous
    missions, and integrate payloads. The SDK ships with example programs, quickstart guides, and concept documentation on
    dev.bostondynamics.com.
  humanURL: https://dev.bostondynamics.com/
  tags:
  - C++
  - gRPC
  - Payloads
  - Python
  - Quadruped
  - SDK
  - Spot
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.bostondynamics.com/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/boston-dynamics/spot-sdk
  - type: PythonSDK
    url: https://github.com/boston-dynamics/spot-sdk
  - type: CppSDK
    url: https://github.com/boston-dynamics/spot-cpp-sdk
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://github.com/boston-dynamics/spot-sdk/blob/master/docs/python/quickstart.md
  - type: ProductPage
    url: https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/boston-dynamics-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/boston-dynamics-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/
- type: Products
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/products/
- type: SpotProductPage
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/
- type: AtlasProductPage
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/products/atlas/
- type: StretchProductPage
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/products/stretch/
- type: OrbitProductPage
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/products/orbit/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://dev.bostondynamics.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/boston-dynamics
- type: Support
  url: https://support.bostondynamics.com/s/
- type: Training
  url: https://support.bostondynamics.com/s/bdu
- type: Blog
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/
- type: News
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/news/
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/case-studies/
- type: Videos
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/videos/
- type: Partners
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/partners/
- type: ContactSales
  url: https://bostondynamics.com/contact/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boston-dynamics/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com