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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.
Mark Chiappetta
Mark Chiappetta is the president and CEO of Oxipital AI, a Bedford, Massachusetts company that builds AI-driven machine vision for factory lines that pick, count, and inspect food. He is an electrical engineer who spent 30-plus years in robotics, including a run as a corporate VP at iRobot and eight years growing Soft Robotics from an early gripper startup. In 2024 he took the top job at Soft Robotics, then engineered the pivot that spun the company's 3D vision and AI software into Oxipital AI while the gripper hardware business was sold off. His pitch is that food processors will not rip out human lines for robots overnight, so Oxipital sells the eyes and brains first and the hands later.
Mbodi AI
Mbodi AI is a New York robotics-software company building an embodied AI platform that lets people teach industrial robots new skills through plain natural language and short demonstrations - no code and no specialized engineers. Founded in 2024 by two former Google Public DNS engineers, the platform combines generative AI, agent orchestration and symbolic reasoning to turn everyday instructions into precise, reliable robot actions that run in production within minutes and transfer across an entire robot fleet. Mbodi is a Y Combinator company with a joint commercialization partnership with ABB Robotics.