Fetch Robotics

Fetch Robotics is a provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for the manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment industries, enabling customers to optimize warehouse and material-handling workflows through robotic automation. Its Fetch and Freight robots are programmed through a ROS (Robot Operating System) interface — standard ROS topics, services, and actions conforming to ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs) — rather than an HTTP/REST API, and the first-party client, driver, and simulation libraries are published as open source in the fetchrobotics GitHub organization. Fetch Robotics was acquired by Zebra Technologies in August 2021 for approximately $290M; fetchrobotics.com now redirects to Zebra and the autonomous-mobile-robot product line is being wound down (2025-2026), though the open-source ROS packages remain available.

Fetch Robotics is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Warehouse Automation, and ROS.

Fetch Robotics’ developer surface includes documentation and 10 more developer resources.

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10.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

0 APIs

Company Robotics Autonomous Mobile Robots Warehouse Automation ROS Robot Operating System Material Handling Manufacturing Fulfillment Open Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 10.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.8 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Industrial Automation and Robotics	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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.

ROS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Security Posture 1

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

Fetch Robotics Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

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Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: fetch-robotics
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  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:
  - url: https://fetchrobotics.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://skild.ai/ — a different registrable domain (fetchrobotics.com -> skild.ai),
      possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/fetch-robotics.png
name: Fetch Robotics
description: Fetch Robotics is a provider of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for the manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment
  industries, enabling customers to optimize warehouse and material-handling workflows through robotic automation. Its Fetch
  and Freight robots are programmed through a ROS (Robot Operating System) interface — standard ROS topics, services, and
  actions conforming to ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs) — rather than an HTTP/REST API, and the first-party client, driver,
  and simulation libraries are published as open source in the fetchrobotics GitHub organization. Fetch Robotics was acquired
  by Zebra Technologies in August 2021 for approximately $290M; fetchrobotics.com now redirects to Zebra and the autonomous-mobile-robot
  product line is being wound down (2025-2026), though the open-source ROS packages remain available.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fetch-robotics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- shasta-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Robotics
- Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Warehouse Automation
- ROS
- Robot Operating System
- Material Handling
- Manufacturing
- Fulfillment
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Company
- Robotics
- Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Warehouse Automation
- ROS
- Robot Operating System
- Material Handling
- Manufacturing
- Fulfillment
- Open Source
- Open-Source
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://fetchrobotics.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/fetchrobotics
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/fetchrobotics
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/fetchrobotics/docs
- type: Packages
  url: packages/fetch-robotics-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/fetch-robotics-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/fetch-robotics-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/fetch-robotics-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/fetch-robotics-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/fetch-robotics-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/fetch-robotics-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: skild-ai
x-acquired-year: 2026
x-status-source: https://www.dcvelocity.com/material-handling/robotics/zebra-sells-off-its-fetch-amr-division

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