CTRL-labs *

CTRL-labs was a neurotechnology company founded in 2015 in New York City (originally Cognescent) by Thomas Reardon, Patrick Kaifosh, and Tim Machado, building a non-invasive neural interface: a wrist-worn band that reads surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from motor neurons to decode intended hand and finger movements for human-computer interaction. Its developer hardware was the CTRL-kit, and it acquired the Myo armband patents from North. In fall 2019 CTRL-labs was acquired by Facebook and folded into Facebook (now Meta) Reality Labs, where the technology became the basis of Meta's neuromotor wristband for AR glasses (detailed in a July 2025 Nature paper). The company no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes no public API, SDK, or developer platform; this record is retained as an acquired-company lead.

CTRL-labs * is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier Tech, Neurotechnology, Neural Interface, and Electromyography.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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CompanyFrontier TechNeurotechnologyNeural InterfaceElectromyographyWearablesHuman-Computer InteractionAugmented Reality

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 5.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · 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 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
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ctrl-labs
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ctrl-labs.png
name: CTRL-labs *
description: 'CTRL-labs was a neurotechnology company founded in 2015 in New York City (originally Cognescent) by Thomas Reardon,
  Patrick Kaifosh, and Tim Machado, building a non-invasive neural interface: a wrist-worn band that reads surface electromyography
  (sEMG) signals from motor neurons to decode intended hand and finger movements for human-computer interaction. Its developer
  hardware was the CTRL-kit, and it acquired the Myo armband patents from North. In fall 2019 CTRL-labs was acquired by Facebook
  and folded into Facebook (now Meta) Reality Labs, where the technology became the basis of Meta''s neuromotor wristband
  for AR glasses (detailed in a July 2025 Nature paper). The company no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes
  no public API, SDK, or developer platform; this record is retained as an acquired-company lead.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ctrl-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
- matrix-partners
- spark-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: meta
x-acquired-year: 2019
x-enrichment-note: Defunct as an independent company; absorbed into Meta Reality Labs in 2019. No live website (ctrl-labs.com
  serves only a static memorial page via CloudFront), no public API, no first-party SDK/package (npm/PyPI none; the github.com/ctrl-labs
  org holds only archived third-party tooling forks). No API artifacts could be searched, generated, or derived without fabrication.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Neurotechnology
- Neural Interface
- Electromyography
- Wearables
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Augmented Reality
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/facebook/
  name: Facebook
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: In fall 2019 CTRL-labs was acquired by Facebook and folded into Facebook (now Meta) Reality Labs, where the
    technology became the basis of Meta's neuromotor wristband for AR glasses (detailed in a July 2025 Nature paper).
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ctrl-labs.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ctrl-labs
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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