Oxipital AI V-CORTX Visual AI Inspection

Oxipital AI is a machine vision company in Bedford, Massachusetts, formed when Soft Robotics Inc. divested its gripper business to the Schmalz Group in August 2024 and refocused on AI vision. It helps food processors and manufacturers automate quality inspection and robotic picking of highly variable products such as poultry, produce and frozen pizza.

Its V-CORTX platform combines AI vision with no-code tools, web dashboards, a recipe builder, a model manager and analytics, deployed in food-grade IP69K camera enclosures. Two solutions run on it: Visual AI Inspection Systems for product quality and Vision Guided Robotic Picking for pick-and-place cells built with robot partners such as Staubli. Users shown on the website include Lakeside Foods, Richelieu Foods, Sealed Air and Johnsonville.

• V-CORTX platform: integrated AI vision platform for manufacturers and machine builders.
• No-code tools: recipe builder and model manager let plant teams configure inspections without coding.
• Visual AI inspection: checks product quality such as topping coverage, defects and shape.
• Vision guided picking: guides robots to pick variable food items in pick-and-place cells.
• Food-grade hardware: IP69K camera enclosures for washdown environments.
• Analytics dashboard: web-based dashboards track quality and production data.

• Poultry processors in Vietnam inspecting chicken parts for defects before packing.
• Frozen food and bakery plants checking topping coverage or shape of ready meals.
• Seafood processors using vision-guided robots to pick and place fillets or shrimp into trays.

• Labour savings: a frozen pizza maker projected over 500,000 USD in savings over five years by replacing manual QC roles.
• Fast deployment: the company states systems go live in days rather than months.
• Consistent quality: every product is inspected in-line instead of sampled by hand.
• Secure data handling: the company holds ISO 27001 certification.

Food plants face labour shortages and rising wages, and AI vision is replacing manual inspection on lines where product variability defeats rule-based cameras. Poultry, seafood and ready-meal processors in Southeast Asia, many of them exporters, are investing in automation to keep quality consistent and meet customer audits.

Headquartered at 32 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA, USA. Created from Soft Robotics Inc., which transferred its gripper assets to the Schmalz Group in August 2024. Investors and strategic partners named on the website include ABB, Fanuc, Tyson, Marel, Honeywell, Johnsonville, Yamaha and Tekfen. Staubli Robotics became its first Preferred Partner in December 2024.