# Boston Dynamics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/boston-dynamics/  
**Website:** https://bostondynamics.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 22.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **Boston Dynamics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Boston Dynamics Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Boston Dynamics Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Atlas, Boston Dynamics, Fleet Management, gRPC, Hardware, Humanoid Robots, Industrial Inspection, Quadrupedal Robots, Robotics, Spot, Stretch, Warehouse Automation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/boston-dynamics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.