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 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyFrontier TechNeurotechnologyNeural InterfaceElectromyographyWearablesHuman-Computer InteractionAugmented Reality

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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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.'
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x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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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.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Frontier Tech
- Neurotechnology
- Neural Interface
- Electromyography
- Wearables
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Augmented Reality
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- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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