aid: clone
name: Clone
description: >-
  Clone Robotics develops musculoskeletal, intelligent humanoid androids and
  robotic hands built on Myofiber, its artificial-muscle technology pioneered in
  2021, driven by water-based hydraulics and biomimetic joints. Its flagship
  Clone Alpha is a full-body biomimetic humanoid with synthetic organs; the
  Clone Hand is its foundational dexterous-manipulation platform. The developer
  surface is a first-party Python client (clone_client) exposing a high-level
  gRPC (proto3) API to directly control the Clone Robot over the local network —
  actuating muscles via impulses/pulses/pressures, driving pinch and hydra
  valves, managing the water-pump pressure source, streaming IMU/pose/joint
  telemetry, and configuring cameras. There is no public HTTP/REST API or hosted
  endpoint; control is LAN-scoped gRPC discovered over zeroconf/mDNS by robot
  name or IP. Co-founded 2021 by Dhanush Radhakrishna and Lukasz Kozlik.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clone/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/140611352?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- initialized-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Robotics
- Humanoid
- Androids
- Artificial Muscle
- gRPC
- Hardware
- Actuation
apis:
- name: Clone Robot Control API
  description: >-
    High-level gRPC (proto3) API to directly control the Clone Robot — muscle
    actuation (impulses/pulses/pressures), pinch/hydra valve control, water-pump
    pressure source, telemetry streaming, and camera management. Delivered as
    the first-party clone_client Python package; discovered over zeroconf/mDNS
    on the local network. No public hosted endpoint.
  humanURL: https://github.com/clonerobotics/clone_client
  x-transport: grpc-lan
  properties:
  - type: Protobuf
    name: ControllerGRPC service (muscles, valves, water pump)
    url: grpc/clone-controller.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: HardwareDriverGRPC service (bus, nodes, sensors)
    url: grpc/clone-hardware_driver.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: StateStoreReceiverGRPC service (telemetry, system state)
    url: grpc/clone-state_store.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: CameraDriverService (camera streams & sinks)
    url: grpc/clone-camera_driver.proto
  - type: Protobuf
    name: Shared data types & error envelope
    url: grpc/clone-data_types.proto
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://clonerobotics.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/clonerobotics
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/clonerobotics/clone_client
- type: Packages
  url: packages/clone-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/clone-packages.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/clone-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/clone-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/clone-conventions.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/clone-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/clone-llms.txt
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://clonerobotics.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://clonerobotics.com/terms-of-use
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/clonerobotics
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clonerobotics/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd0xLOw6No5IAsq3Y2-b0eA
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/clonerobotics
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence