aid: rapid-robotics name: Rapid Robotics description: 'Rapid Robotics was a San Francisco robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) company, founded in 2019 by Jordan Kretchmer, that rented pre-trained six-axis "Rapid Machine Operators" to small and mid-size manufacturers on a subscription — roughly $25,000 per robot per year — to cover repetitive machine-tending work such as pad printing, injection molding, heat staking, heat stamping, ultrasonic welding, pick-and-place and parts inspection. The robots shipped with grippers, computer-vision software and models pre-trained on CAD, and were set up and supervised through a proprietary no-code fleet console rather than through a developer interface. The company raised about $54.2M in total — a $12M Series A in 2021 and a $36.7M Series B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global — and announced partnerships with Universal Robots and Yaskawa Motoman in early 2023. Rapid Robotics subsequently wound down, and its assets — hardware, marquee customers and the US team — were acquired by Munich-based RaaS company RobCo, which used them to enter the US market and announced a new San Francisco headquarters on 9 September 2025. The company never published a public API, SDK, developer portal, or machine-readable specification of any kind: 1,773 unique archived URLs on rapidrobotics.com contain no /api, /apis, /docs, /developer, /graphql or /sdk path. The domain is no longer operated by the company — it is delegated to ns1/ns2.atom.com and redirects to a brand-name marketplace listing. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical record; there is no API surface to catalog.' url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rapid-robotics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml x-api-posture: no-product-api x-api-posture-basis: observed x-api-posture-note: "The company never published a public API, SDK, developer portal, or machine-readable specification of any kind: 1,773 unique archived URLs on rapidrobotics.com contain no /api, /apis, /docs, /develope" x-type: company x-source: harvest:secondary-market x-tier: stub x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface x-lifecycle: defunct x-enrichment-note: 'Enrichment probe 2026-08-26. Rapid Robotics is defunct: its assets were acquired by RobCo (all/robco, https://www.rob.co/) ahead of RobCo''s 2025-09-09 US launch announcement, which states RobCo spent eight months "acquiring the assets of the US firm, Rapid Robotics, including hardware, marquee customers, and an experienced local team". The domain is gone: rapidrobotics.com now delegates to ns1.atom.com/ns2.atom.com and https://www.rapidrobotics.com/ returns HTTP 302 to https://www.atom.com/name/RapidRobotics, a brand-name/domain marketplace listing (atom.com itself answers 403 behind a Cloudflare challenge to non-browser clients). No api./docs./developer./app. subdomain resolves in DNS. STEP 0b contract discovery ran in full against www.rapidrobotics.com and every path returned HTTP 404 from the parking origin (openresty), with no soft-200 catch-all: /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs, /docs, /llms.txt, /.well-known/security.txt, /.well-known/agent-card.json, /.well-known/agent.json, /.well-known/api-catalog, /.well-known/openid-configuration, /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json. No GraphQL or MCP surface was ever advertised, so there was nothing to introspect. A Wayback CDX sweep of the historical site returned 1,773 unique URLs (last live capture 2026-07-01) covering only marketing paths — /about, /blog, /capabilities, /careers, /company, /contact, /events, /faqs, /use-cases — and ZERO developer paths; the company shipped RaaS hardware operated through its own console, not an API. No GitHub organization exists at github.com/rapid-robotics, /rapidrobotics or /RapidRobotics (GitHub API 403/absent). Retrieval of archived page BODIES from web.archive.org timed out and was abandoned per the bounded-probe rule (the CDX index answered fine); this affects narrative colour only, not the finding. REMOVED a false Website pointer to https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/ that the harvest stub carried: that is the secondary-market VENUE the company was surfaced from, not Rapid Robotics'' own site. No replacement Website pointer was added because the company no longer serves one. Domain-security, well-known, packages and llms artifacts were all deliberately NOT written: probing the parked domain would have recorded Atom.com''s marketplace posture and credited it to Rapid Robotics. Zero artifacts written; any would be fabrication.' 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 specificationVersion: '0.23' created: '2026-08-26' modified: '2026-08-26' tags: - Company - Robotics - Robotics as a Service - Industrial Automation - Manufacturing - Machine Tending - Computer-Vision - Automation - Defunct - Acquired tags_raw: - Company - Robotics - Robotics as a Service - Industrial Automation - Manufacturing - Machine Tending - Computer Vision - Automation - Defunct - Acquired apis: [] maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com - FN: APIs.json email: info@apis.io common: - type: ParentCompany url: https://apis.io/providers/robco/ name: RobCo x-relationship: acquisition x-coverage: state: none reason: defunct detail: Rapid Robotics wound down and its hardware, customers and US team were absorbed by RobCo; www.rapidrobotics.com now 302s to the Atom.com brand-name marketplace listing at atom.com/name/RapidRobotics and every developer path returns 404, and the 1,773 archived URLs from when the site was live contain no /api or /docs path at all. evidence: - url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/ status: 302 - url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/openapi.json status: 404 - url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/.well-known/agent-card.json status: 404 - url: https://www.rapidrobotics.com/llms.txt status: 404 - url: https://www.atom.com/name/RapidRobotics status: 403 - url: https://apis.io/providers/robco/ status: 200 checked: '2026-08-26' x-enrichment: date: '2026-08-26' status: nochange artifacts_added: 0 pass: local-v1