Soft Robotics for Confined Space Inspection

We Go Where
No Robot
Has Gone Before

Sprout is a soft robot built to inspect the tightest, most hazardous confined spaces in industry, from petrochemical vessels to nuclear containment. No human entry. No rigid-robot limitations.

100+
Confined Space Deaths / Year (US)
Zero
Human Entry Required
Mid-2026
Commercial Readiness
2026
HT Deep Tech Pioneer
Recognised & Partnered With
Odense Robotics XPrize Rainforest Semifinalists EU Robotics, Renaud Champion Award Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneers 2026 Danish Technological Institute TMC Orano Odense Robotics XPrize Rainforest Semifinalists EU Robotics, Renaud Champion Award Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneers 2026 Danish Technological Institute TMC Orano

We reach places
no other robot can.

XiniX AI builds soft robots specialized for confined industrial spaces: the complex, tight geometries inside petrochemical plants, nuclear facilities, and underground infrastructure that rigid robots simply cannot navigate.

01
The Problem

Pipelines, reactor vessels, storage tanks, and distillation columns degrade invisibly. Conventional inspection means shutdowns, scaffolding, or sending people into life-threatening confined spaces. Rigid robots are too bulky to fit. The result: assets go uninspected.

02
Our Approach

Sprout is a soft robot that grows through confined spaces like a vine, twisting, bending, and extending where rigid robots cannot physically go. From petrochemical columns to nuclear containment structures, Sprout reaches the unreachable.

03
Core Technology

Our proprietary vine mechanism grows from the tip, enabling navigation of geometries impossible for rigid robots. Sprout can twist, bend, and extend into tight spaces safely. IP-backed and industrially hardened.

04
Deployment Model

Available as a full Robot + AI inspection system or as a standalone AI analytics platform. Deployed on-site with minimal setup, reducing downtime, eliminating confined space entry, and delivering inspection data in real time.

XiniX Forge

Sprout, our soft inspection robot, paired with an AI asset intelligence layer. Purpose-built for the confined spaces that defeat conventional inspection methods.

XiniX Forge
ENTRY SCAN OK 2 DEFECTS 3D MAP DEPTH 4.2m VESSEL CROSS-SECTION
Inspecting
Complete Inspection SystemXiniX Forge

Forge pairs Sprout, the only soft robot designed for confined industrial inspection, with an AI platform that processes sensor data, detects anomalies, and delivers structured maintenance intelligence. From petrochemical to nuclear.

  • Vine Navigation
    Grows from tip through any geometry. Zero entrapment risk.
  • AI Intelligence Layer
    Real-time anomaly detection, 3D mapping, LLM chat interface.
  • Hazardous Environment Ready
    Designed for oil & gas, nuclear, and confined industrial spaces.
  • Robot-as-a-Service
    Two entry paths: full Robot + AI platform, or AI standalone.

Two products.
One platform.

Sprout is the robot. Forge is the intelligence. Together they form the world's most capable confined space inspection system.

Sprout
Sprout soft robot for confined space industrial inspection
The Robot

Meet Sprout

Sprout is a soft robot purpose-built for confined industrial inspection. Where rigid robots are too bulky, too stiff, or simply cannot fit, Sprout navigates with ease.

Its vine-growth mechanism grows from the tip, threading through petrochemical columns, reactor vessels, heat exchangers, pipelines, and nuclear containment zones that no other robot can access.

Mechanism
Vine-growth from tip
Navigation
Any confined geometry
Safety
Zero entrapment risk
IP
Proprietary technology
The Intelligence

XiniX Forge

Paired with Sprout is our AI platform: a "data scientist in a box." It processes inspection data in real time, detecting anomalies and generating insights via a conversational LLM interface.

Forge transforms raw sensor data into structured, actionable asset intelligence, giving operators the information they need for critical maintenance and risk decisions.

Detection
Real-time anomaly alerts
Mapping
3D asset reconstruction
Interface
LLM conversational UI
Output
Structured maintenance reports
Forge AI
XiniX Forge AI-powered asset intelligence platform for industrial inspection

Built for
critical industries

Sprout goes where no other robot can, across the industries where confined space inspection matters most.

Oil & Gas

Pipeline inspection, vessel interiors, refinery infrastructure, monitoring assets with the highest consequence of failure.

High Consequence
Nuclear

Inspection inside reactors, containment structures, and radioactive zones where human access is prohibited.

Restricted Access
Refineries & Chemical

Heat exchangers, boilers, column interiors: routine and emergency inspection without costly shutdowns.

Zero Downtime
Underground Infrastructure

Sewers, utility tunnels, buried conduits, deploying intelligence into unseen infrastructure beneath cities.

Urban Critical

The team
building it.

A founding team combining deep robotics, AI, and commercial expertise, backed by world-class industrial partnerships.

XiniX AI founding team, robotics and AI experts
Jaskaran Sandhu
Jaskaran Sandhu
CEO & Co-Founder

Drives commercial strategy, investor relations, and ecosystem partnerships. Simultaneously leads as COO of TMC and CEO of Open Pixel Systems, bringing deep-tech and operational expertise.

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Eric Herrero
Eric Herrero
CTO & Co-Founder

Experienced robotics and embedded systems engineer with a strong background in mechatronics. Leads full technical architecture: from soft-robotic locomotion and mechanical design to sensing and autonomy.

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Dorin Cerbu
Dorin Cerbu
Chief AI Officer & Co-Founder

Specialist in AI, machine learning, and computer vision. Leads development of XiniX's AI stack and autonomous navigation, including perception, defect detection, and data analysis tools that transform inspection data into intelligence.

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Let's build the
future of inspection.

Whether you're an industrial operator, an engineering partner, or exploring inspection solutions, we want to hear from you.
LocationBelgium & Denmark
EcosystemOdense Robotics & Danish Technological Institute
RecognitionHello Tomorrow Pioneer 2026