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 is listed with 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 18 more developer resources.

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20.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 97/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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AtlasBoston DynamicsFleet Management gRPC Hardware Humanoid Robots Industrial InspectionQuadrupedal RobotsRobotics SpotStretchWarehouse Automation

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 20.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 14.7 — up to +21.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 38.1 — up to +12.4 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Industrial Automation and Robotics	undeclared	-	-	-
Buf Schema Registry (public Protocol Buffers modules, gRPC / ConnectRPC schema publishers)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

gRPC

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

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...

Boston Dynamics API pricing

Not yet checked against Boston Dynamics's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-22; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Pro Tier Default: 120 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Boston Dynamics's documentation. Rate-limit details →

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

no policy recorded

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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

ContactSales

ContactSales

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

News

Partners

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)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - boston-dynamics/spot-sdk
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/boston-dynamics.png
x-docs-platform: sphinx
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
x-docs-hosting: netlify
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: '0.23'
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: Plans
  url: plans/boston-dynamics-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/boston-dynamics-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/boston-dynamics-finops.yml
- 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

Boston Dynamics API — frequently asked questions

Does Boston Dynamics have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Boston Dynamics, including Boston Dynamics Spot SDK.

How much does the Boston Dynamics API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Boston Dynamics, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Boston Dynamics API ready for AI agents?

Boston Dynamics has a Kin Score of 20.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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