Soft Robotics Exits Gripper Business to Focus on Visual AI
Oxipital AI will focus on visual inspection tasks such as defect detection, volume estimation, SKU classification, attribute segmentation, and conveyor counting. It will also on robotic picking in various industries, starting primarily in the food business where Soft Robotics had built its reputation.
Oxipital AI New Offering of AI Vision for Quality Inspection and Robotic Guidance
While Soft Robotics’ grippers are now under the Schmalz umbrella, the company is no longer. It has spun off its mGripAI 3D vision and artificial intelligence technologies into a new company called Oxipital AI.
Oxipital AI will focus on visual inspection tasks such as defect detection, volume estimation, SKU classification, attribute segmentation, and conveyor counting. It will also focus on robotic picking in various industries, starting primarily in the food business where Soft Robotics had built its reputation.
The company plans to create core object models that are pre-trained using 100% synthetic data. Oxipital AI requires zero imagery to be gathered, nor does it need human labeling.
A no-code feature enables customers to set rules for what constitutes a good product or a bad product for inspection tasks, and a cloud-based dashboard collects and analyzes real-world data. Oxipital AI’s technology stack interfaces with all existing industrial robot arms, as well as conventional automation systems such as conveyors.