aid: bionaut-labs
name: Bionaut Labs
description: 'Bionaut Labs is a clinical-stage medical robotics company headquartered
  in Los Angeles, California, developing "Bionauts" — remote-controlled, magnetically
  steered microscale robots roughly the size of a grain of rice that travel through
  tissue to deliver drugs, biologics and nucleic acids directly to targets deep in
  the brain and central nervous system. Founded in 2016 by CEO Michael Shpigelmacher,
  the company is pursuing treatments for malignant glioma, Dandy-Walker syndrome,
  Parkinson''s disease and Huntington''s disease, and has raised more than $80 million
  from investors including Khosla Ventures. Its product is a therapeutic device and
  navigation platform regulated as a medical device, not software sold to developers:
  Bionaut Labs operates no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable
  contract of any kind.'
image: https://www.bionautlabs.com/images/bionaut-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bionaut-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-07'
modified: '2026-08-07'
tags:
- Company
- Medical Devices
- Robotics
- Healthcare
- Biotechnology
- Drug Delivery
- Neurology
- Micro-Robotics
- Life Sciences
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bionaut-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bionautlabs.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bionaut-labs
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/bionaut-labs_stock/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bionaut-labs-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-07'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: >-
    Bionaut Labs builds a magnetically steered micro-robot drug-delivery device
    regulated as a medical device, and its entire website now serves the same
    790-byte logo placeholder for every path — /newsroom, /team/*, /.well-known/*
    and /openapi.json all return byte-identical HTML to a nonsense control path —
    so there is no developer surface, and no documentation surface at all, to read.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.bionautlabs.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://bionautlabs.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://bionautlabs.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/bionaut-labs/repos
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.bionautlabs.com/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-07'