# Rapid Robotics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rapid-robotics/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Tags

Company, Robotics, Robotics as a Service, Industrial Automation, Manufacturing, Machine Tending, Computer-Vision, Automation, Defunct, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/rapid-robotics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.