Clone

aid: clone
name: Clone
description: Clone Robotics develops musculoskeletal, intelligent humanoid androids and robotic hands built on Myofiber, its
  artificial-muscle technology pioneered in 2021, driven by water-based hydraulics and biomimetic joints. Its flagship Clone
  Alpha is a full-body biomimetic humanoid with synthetic organs; the Clone Hand is its foundational dexterous-manipulation
  platform. The developer surface is a first-party Python client (clone_client) exposing a high-level gRPC (proto3) API to
  directly control the Clone Robot over the local network — actuating muscles via impulses/pulses/pressures, driving pinch
  and hydra valves, managing the water-pump pressure source, streaming IMU/pose/joint telemetry, and configuring cameras.
  There is no public HTTP/REST API or hosted endpoint; control is LAN-scoped gRPC discovered over zeroconf/mDNS by robot name
  or IP. Co-founded 2021 by Dhanush Radhakrishna and Lukasz Kozlik.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clone/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: GPL-3.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/140611352?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- initialized-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Robotics
- Humanoid
- Androids
- Artificial Muscle
- gRPC
- Hardware
- Actuation
apis:
- name: Clone Robot Control API
  description: High-level gRPC (proto3) API to directly control the Clone Robot — muscle actuation (impulses/pulses/pressures),
    pinch/hydra valve control, water-pump pressure source, telemetry streaming, and camera management. Delivered as the first-party
    clone_client Python package; discovered over zeroconf/mDNS on the local network. No public hosted endpoint.
  humanURL: https://github.com/clonerobotics/clone_client
  x-transport: grpc-lan
  properties:
  - type: Protobuf
    name: ControllerGRPC service (muscles, valves, water pump)
    url: grpc/clone-controller.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: HardwareDriverGRPC service (bus, nodes, sensors)
    url: grpc/clone-hardware_driver.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: StateStoreReceiverGRPC service (telemetry, system state)
    url: grpc/clone-state_store.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: CameraDriverService (camera streams & sinks)
    url: grpc/clone-camera_driver.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: Shared data types & error envelope
    url: grpc/clone-data_types.proto
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/clonerobotics/clone_client/issues
- type: License
  name: GPL-3.0
  url: https://github.com/clonerobotics/clone_client/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://clonerobotics.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/clonerobotics
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/clonerobotics/clone_client
- type: Packages
  url: packages/clone-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/clone-packages.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/clone-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/clone-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/clone-conventions.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/clone-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/clone-llms.txt
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://clonerobotics.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://clonerobotics.com/terms-of-use
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/clonerobotics
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clonerobotics/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd0xLOw6No5IAsq3Y2-b0eA
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/clonerobotics
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence