# Vicarious

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vicarious/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| 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 |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine-Learning, Industrial Automation, Acquired, Defunct

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