Clone

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.

Clone is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier Tech, Robotics, Humanoid, and Androids.

Clone’s developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 18 more developer resources.

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18.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 6/100 dormant open core · GPL-3.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Frontier Tech RoboticsHumanoidAndroidsArtificial MusclegRPC Hardware Actuation

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 18.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 5.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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 8 / 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

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):

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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 24.0 — up to +19.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 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
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.

Clone Robot Control API

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...

Security Posture 1

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

Clone Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

DataModel

DataModel

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Conventions

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

Instagram

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Protobuf

Protobuf

Source (apis.yml)

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:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '2026-10-06'
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:
- url: https://clonerobotics.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- 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

Clone API — frequently asked questions

Does Clone have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Clone, including Clone Robot Control API.

Is the Clone API ready for AI agents?

Clone has a Kin Score of 18.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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