Rapid Robotics was a San Francisco robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) company, founded in 2019 by Jordan Kretchmer, that rented pre-trained six-axis "Rapid Machine Operators" to small and mid-size manufacturers on a subscription — roughly $25,000 per robot per year — to cover repetitive machine-tending work such as pad printing, injection molding, heat staking, heat stamping, ultrasonic welding, pick-and-place and parts inspection. The robots shipped with grippers, computer-vision software and models pre-trained on CAD, and were set up and supervised through a proprietary no-code fleet console rather than through a developer interface. The company raised about $54.2M in total — a $12M Series A in 2021 and a $36.7M Series B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global — and announced partnerships with Universal Robots and Yaskawa Motoman in early 2023. Rapid Robotics subsequently wound down, and its assets — hardware, marquee customers and the US team — were acquired by Munich-based RaaS company RobCo, which used them to enter the US market and announced a new San Francisco headquarters on 9 September 2025. The company never published a public API, SDK, developer portal, or machine-readable specification of any kind: 1,773 unique archived URLs on rapidrobotics.com contain no /api, /apis, /docs, /developer, /graphql or /sdk path. The domain is no longer operated by the company — it is delegated to ns1/ns2.atom.com and redirects to a brand-name marketplace listing. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical record; there is no API surface to catalog.
Rapid Robotics is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Robotics, Robotics as a Service, Industrial Automation, and Manufacturing.
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aid: rapid-robotics
name: Rapid Robotics
description: 'Rapid Robotics was a San Francisco robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) company, founded in 2019 by Jordan Kretchmer,
that rented pre-trained six-axis "Rapid Machine Operators" to small and mid-size manufacturers on a subscription — roughly
$25,000 per robot per year — to cover repetitive machine-tending work such as pad printing, injection molding, heat staking,
heat stamping, ultrasonic welding, pick-and-place and parts inspection. The robots shipped with grippers, computer-vision
software and models pre-trained on CAD, and were set up and supervised through a proprietary no-code fleet console rather
than through a developer interface. The company raised about $54.2M in total — a $12M Series A in 2021 and a $36.7M Series
B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global — and announced partnerships with Universal Robots and Yaskawa Motoman in early
2023. Rapid Robotics subsequently wound down, and its assets — hardware, marquee customers and the US team — were acquired
by Munich-based RaaS company RobCo, which used them to enter the US market and announced a new San Francisco headquarters
on 9 September 2025. The company never published a public API, SDK, developer portal, or machine-readable specification
of any kind: 1,773 unique archived URLs on rapidrobotics.com contain no /api, /apis, /docs, /developer, /graphql or /sdk
path. The domain is no longer operated by the company — it is delegated to ns1/ns2.atom.com and redirects to a brand-name
marketplace listing. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical record; there is no API surface
to catalog.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rapid-robotics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 'The company never published a public API, SDK, developer portal, or machine-readable specification of
any kind: 1,773 unique archived URLs on rapidrobotics.com contain no /api, /apis, /docs, /develope'
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-lifecycle: defunct
x-enrichment-note: 'Enrichment probe 2026-08-26. Rapid Robotics is defunct: its assets were acquired by RobCo (all/robco,
https://www.rob.co/) ahead of RobCo''s 2025-09-09 US launch announcement, which states RobCo spent eight months "acquiring
the assets of the US firm, Rapid Robotics, including hardware, marquee customers, and an experienced local team". The domain
is gone: rapidrobotics.com now delegates to ns1.atom.com/ns2.atom.com and https://www.rapidrobotics.com/ returns HTTP 302
to https://www.atom.com/name/RapidRobotics, a brand-name/domain marketplace listing (atom.com itself answers 403 behind
a Cloudflare challenge to non-browser clients). No api./docs./developer./app. subdomain resolves in DNS. STEP 0b contract
discovery ran in full against www.rapidrobotics.com and every path returned HTTP 404 from the parking origin (openresty),
with no soft-200 catch-all: /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs, /docs, /llms.txt, /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/agent-card.json,
/.well-known/agent.json, /.well-known/api-catalog, /.well-known/openid-configuration, /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server,
/.well-known/ai-plugin.json. No GraphQL or MCP surface was ever advertised, so there was nothing to introspect. A Wayback
CDX sweep of the historical site returned 1,773 unique URLs (last live capture 2026-07-01) covering only marketing paths
— /about, /blog, /capabilities, /careers, /company, /contact, /events, /faqs, /use-cases — and ZERO developer paths; the
company shipped RaaS hardware operated through its own console, not an API. No GitHub organization exists at github.com/rapid-robotics,
/rapidrobotics or /RapidRobotics (GitHub API 403/absent). Retrieval of archived page BODIES from web.archive.org timed out
and was abandoned per the bounded-probe rule (the CDX index answered fine); this affects narrative colour only, not the
finding. REMOVED a false Website pointer to https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/ that the harvest stub carried: that is
the secondary-market VENUE the company was surfaced from, not Rapid Robotics'' own site. No replacement Website pointer
was added because the company no longer serves one. Domain-security, well-known, packages and llms artifacts were all deliberately
NOT written: probing the parked domain would have recorded Atom.com''s marketplace posture and credited it to Rapid Robotics.
Zero artifacts written; any would be fabrication.'
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
gated: private
gated_source:
- x-api-posture
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source: []
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-09-15'
tags:
- Company
- Robotics
- Robotics as a Service
- Industrial Automation
- Manufacturing
- Machine Tending
- Computer Vision
- Automation
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Robotics
- Robotics as a Service
- Industrial Automation
- Manufacturing
- Machine Tending
- Computer Vision
- Automation
- Defunct
- Acquired
- Computer-Vision
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
url: https://apis.io/providers/robco/
name: RobCo
x-relationship: acquisition
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Rapid Robotics wound down and its hardware, customers and US team were absorbed by RobCo; www.rapidrobotics.com
now 302s to the Atom.com brand-name marketplace listing at atom.com/name/RapidRobotics and every developer path returns
404, and the 1,773 archived URLs from when the site was live contain no /api or /docs path at all.
evidence:
- url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/
status: 302
- url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.atom.com/name/RapidRobotics
status: 403
- url: https://apis.io/providers/robco/
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-26'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-26'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
x-status: defunct
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