# Oxipital AI

> Oxipital AI is a Bedford, Massachusetts company building AI-enabled machine vision systems for food processing, agriculture and consumer-goods manufacturing. Emerging in 2024 from the rebrand of Soft Robotics after that company sold its gripper hardware line to Schmalz, Oxipital AI now centers on its V-CORTX vision platform and VX2 hardware, which use synthetic data and computer vision to handle quality inspection, foreign-object detection, yield optimization and vision-guided robotic picking in high-variability production lines.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Mark Chiappetta (President & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~110 employees
- **Products:** V-CORTX, VX2 Vision System, AI Inspection Solutions
- **Notable:** Rebranded from Soft Robotics to Oxipital AI in 2024 after divesting gripper hardware to Schmalz., Raised $84M in total funding across its history., Launched V-CORTX AI vision platform and VX2 vision hardware.

## Products & services

- **V-CORTX** — Integrated, no-code AI vision platform that lets manufacturers and machine builders deploy and scale machine vision for inspection, foreign-object detection, yield and throughput optimization and vision-guided robotics, with synthetic data generation, pre-trained object models, web-based dashboards and production data analytics.
- **VX2 Vision System** — Compact, food-grade IP69K vision hardware for high-speed inspection and robotic picking, offering more processing power and lower cost than its predecessor; launched at PACK EXPO 2024.
- **AI Inspection Solutions** — Applications for defect detection and classification, product-attribute measurement, foreign-material detection and quality control in food, produce, poultry, meat, bakery and consumer packaged goods.

## Achievements

- Rebranded from Soft Robotics to Oxipital AI in 2024 after divesting gripper hardware to Schmalz.
- Raised $84M in total funding across its history.
- Launched V-CORTX AI vision platform and VX2 vision hardware.
- PACK EXPO Food and Beverage Technology Excellence Awards finalist (2024).
- Won a production contract covering 120 AI vision systems for foreign-object detection.
- Tracking 400% year-over-year revenue growth in 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Closed Series A financing co-led by SAS Private Equities and Scale Venture Partners, with Material Impact participating, following rapid V-CORTX adoption.
- **2026** — Awarded contract to deploy 120 V-CORTX vision systems for foreign-object detection across multiple facilities; tracking 400% revenue growth.
- **2024-11** — Unveiled the VX2 Vision System at PACK EXPO; named a Food and Beverage Technology Excellence Awards finalist.
- **2024-08** — Soft Robotics rebranded as Oxipital AI after selling its gripper hardware business to the Schmalz Group.

## Links

- Website: https://oxipitalai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxipital-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/OxipitalAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OxipitalAI
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oxipitalai/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oxipitalai/

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Last updated: 2026-07-18