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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Company Artificial Intelligence Robotics Machine-Learning Industrial Automation Acquired Defunct

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ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: vicarious
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
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vicarious.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vicarious/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Its vicarious.com domain no longer resolves and it exposes no public API surface.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcvc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Machine-Learning
- Industrial Automation
- Acquired
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
- Industrial Automation
- Acquired
- Defunct
x-status: defunct
x-status-reason: acquired-by-intrinsic-alphabet-2022; vicarious.com no longer resolves
apis: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/intrinsic-ai/
  name: Intrinsic
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: 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.

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