generated: '2026-08-26'
method: searched
source: https://www.therobotreport.com/ready-robotics-maker-of-forgeos-shuts-down/
summary: >-
  READY Robotics ceased operations in August 2024. This lifecycle record documents the end-of-life of
  the company and of every developer surface it operated, not a published deprecation policy — the
  company never published one that survives, and there is nothing left to deprecate.
company_status: defunct
versioning:
  scheme: null
  policy_url: null
  note: no versioning policy is reachable; the documentation hosts no longer resolve
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  sunset_header: unknown
  note: >-
    No deprecation or Sunset/Deprecation (RFC 8594) policy could be read. The developer documentation
    host that would have carried one is NXDOMAIN.
status_page:
  published: false
  url: null
  note: status.ready-robotics.com does not resolve
sla:
  published: false
events:
- date: '2016'
  event: founded
  detail: READY Robotics founded in 2016, spun out of Johns Hopkins University; headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
  source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ready-robotics
- date: '2024-08'
  event: shutdown
  detail: >-
    Company laid off staff and ceased operations after a funding round fell through at the eleventh
    hour. Wind-down handled as an assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) rather than a formal
    bankruptcy.
  source: https://www.therobotreport.com/ready-robotics-maker-of-forgeos-shuts-down/
- date: '2024-08-13/2024-08-15'
  event: asset-liquidation
  detail: >-
    Equipment auctioned through Silicon Valley Disposition — nearly 50 robot arms from multiple
    vendors plus CNC machine tools.
  source: https://www.therobotreport.com/ready-robotics-maker-of-forgeos-shuts-down/
- date: '2024-05-17'
  event: last-first-party-commit
  detail: Last push to the RAL2 sample driver repository, the newest first-party code in the GitHub organization.
  source: https://github.com/ready-robotics/ral2-sample-driver
surface_end_of_life:
- host: developer.ready-robotics.com
  role: developer portal / Forge Edge API reference
  observed: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  last_archived: '2023-06-28'
- host: docs.ready-robotics.com
  role: Forge/OS product documentation (Docusaurus)
  observed: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
  last_archived: '2024-04-19'
- host: market.ready-robotics.com
  role: Forge/OS app marketplace
  observed: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
- host: support.ready-robotics.com
  role: support / knowledge base
  observed: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
- host: portal.ready-robotics.com
  role: customer portal
  observed: NXDOMAIN
  checked: '2026-08-26'
surviving_surfaces:
- url: https://www.ready-robotics.com/
  status: 403
  note: resolves via Cloudflare; every request is met with an interactive JS challenge. No MX record on the domain.
- url: https://github.com/ready-robotics
  status: 200
  note: organization is public and intact — 58 repositories, mostly vendored upstream C++ dependencies.
- url: https://ready-robotics.github.io/
  status: 200
  note: GitHub Pages site for the "READY User Documentation" repo now serves only the string "Hello World".