Philon

Philon is a Y Combinator-backed robotics research company building open-source, general-purpose humanoid robots capable of performing unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks. Philon develops foundational AI models for embodied agents, including Holo 1.0, a generalist vision-language-action model that navigates virtual 3D worlds and completes hour-long objectives, alongside research on generative memory, focused attention for massive context windows, and latent steering of action experts. The company publishes its models and research code openly on GitHub.

Philon is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Research, and Open Source.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
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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description: Philon is a Y Combinator-backed robotics research company building open-source, general-purpose humanoid robots
  capable of performing unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks. Philon develops foundational AI models for embodied agents, including
  Holo 1.0, a generalist vision-language-action model that navigates virtual 3D worlds and completes hour-long objectives,
  alongside research on generative memory, focused attention for massive context windows, and latent steering of action experts.
  The company publishes its models and research code openly on GitHub.
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