Vicarious

Vicarious (Vicarious FPC) was an artificial intelligence and industrial robotics company founded in 2010 by D. Scott Phoenix and Dileep George. It pursued brain-inspired machine learning, notably the Recursive Cortical Network that solved text CAPTCHAs with far less training data, then applied that research to general-purpose robotic automation for warehouse and manufacturing tasks. The company was backed by DCVC, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, ABB, Samsung, and Wipro, and was acquired by Intrinsic, Alphabet's robotics moonshot, in 2022. Its vicarious.com domain no longer resolves and it exposes no public API surface.

Vicarious is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, and Industrial Automation.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 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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Source (apis.yml)

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  trial: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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name: Vicarious
description: Vicarious (Vicarious FPC) was an artificial intelligence and industrial robotics company founded in 2010 by D.
  Scott Phoenix and Dileep George. It pursued brain-inspired machine learning, notably the Recursive Cortical Network that
  solved text CAPTCHAs with far less training data, then applied that research to general-purpose robotic automation for warehouse
  and manufacturing tasks. The company was backed by DCVC, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, ABB, Samsung, and Wipro, and was
  acquired by Intrinsic, Alphabet's robotics moonshot, in 2022. Its vicarious.com domain no longer resolves and it exposes
  no public API surface.
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
- Industrial Automation
- Acquired
- Defunct
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