# Standard Bots

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/standard-bots/  
**Website:** https://standardbots.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Standard Bots designs and builds AI-native industrial robotic arms — the RO1 family (Spark, Core/RO1, Thor, and the Bolt beta) — designed and assembled in the USA for machine tending, welding, palletizing, pick & place, and inspection. The robots ship with a developer platform, "StandardOS", that exposes a Bearer-token REST API served on the robot control box (/api/v1) for controlling arm motion, the gripper/end-effector, cameras, routines, teleoperation, recording, I/O and fault recovery. Alongside the REST API, Standard Bots publishes an official Python SDK (PyPI: standardbots), a realtime protobuf external-control streaming channel, and a ROS2 bridge (Cyclone DDS) with MoveIt and Modbus tooling — making the RO1 programmable both for high-level orchestration and low-latency realtime control.

## Kin Score — 31.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 28.2 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 44.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

## Agent readiness — 28.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **RO1 Robotics REST API** — On-robot REST API (served by the RO1 control box on /api/v1, Bearer-token auth) for controlling arm position and motion, the gripper/end-effector, cameras, routines, teleoperati...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Standard Bots MCP Server** — Candidate MCP tool list mapped one-to-one from the RO1 Robotics REST API operations exposed by the official Python SDK. The RO1 API runs on the robot control box (Bearer-token a...

## Security (2)

- **Standard Bots Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Standard Bots Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Robotics, Industrial Automation, Robotic Arm, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Tending, Developer API, ROS 2, Physical AI

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