# CTRL-labs *

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ctrl-labs/  
**Website:** https://www.ctrl-labs.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Frontier Tech, Neurotechnology, Neural Interface, Electromyography, Wearables, Human-Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality

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