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How Apkudo Turned Returned Phones Into a $72 Million Case for Giving Every Device a Passport
The used-phone economy has a trust problem: nobody agrees on what a device is worth, where it has been or whether the repair worked. Apkudo’s answer is equal parts software ledger, diagnostic lab and robot line - with a decade-long carrier case study showing why the plumbing matters.
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.