aid: ready-robotics
name: Ready Robotics
description: >-
  READY Robotics was a Columbus, Ohio industrial-automation software company, founded in 2016 out of
  Johns Hopkins University, that built Forge/OS — a universal operating system for industrial robots.
  Forge/OS presented one low-code programming and control surface across hundreds of robot models from
  ABB, Epson, FANUC, Kawasaki, Stäubli, Universal Robots and Yaskawa, and its Forge Edge product
  advertised a REST API with an OpenAPI/Swagger description plus client tooling for Python, JavaScript
  and C++, alongside the RAL2 (Robot Abstraction Layer 2) C++/Qt plugin interface used to write new
  robot drivers. The company ceased operations in August 2024 after a funding round collapsed, and its
  assets were liquidated through an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Every developer-facing
  host it operated — developer., docs., portal., market. and support.ready-robotics.com — no longer
  resolves in DNS, so no live machine-readable contract remains. What survives publicly is the
  marketing site behind a Cloudflare challenge and the GitHub organization, which still carries the
  RAL2 sample driver and the vendored C++ dependencies Forge/OS was built on.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ready-robotics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Robotics
- Industrial Automation
- Manufacturing
- Operating Systems
- Industrial IoT
- Robot Operating System
- Defunct
- Company
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ready-robotics.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ready-robotics
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ready-robotics-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ready-robotics-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ready-robotics-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ready-robotics-llms.txt
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ready-robotics-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ready-robotics-plans-pricing.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    READY Robotics ceased operations in August 2024 and withdrew every developer host from DNS —
    developer.ready-robotics.com, which carried the Forge Edge REST API reference and its OpenAPI
    description, is NXDOMAIN, as are docs., market., portal. and support.ready-robotics.com, leaving
    only a Cloudflare-challenged marketing site and the intact GitHub organization.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developer.ready-robotics.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://docs.ready-robotics.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.ready-robotics.com/
    status: 403
  - url: https://github.com/ready-robotics
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-26'