Apera AI's goal is to make factories more productive by providing robots with human-like vision intelligence and speed. We have unique engineering capabilities in AI and deep learning that drive measurable improvements for our customers.
Hear Sina's entrepreneurship journey. An adventurous childhood in Iran, followed by a move to Canada and education in systems engineering. A class in entrepreneurship introduced him to high tech companies and leads to a massive success with high-definition surveillance pioneer Avigilon. From there, pioneering work at Amazon Web Services that shapes Alexa's voice and co-founding Apera AI to simplify automation.
Apera AI is led by an experienced team from high-growth companies focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing. We are privately-owned and venture capital funded.
The company was founded by Sina Afrooze and Armin Khatoonabadi, now CEO and COO, respectively. Sina is a technical expert in the AI / machine learning / deep learning space, with previous successes at Avigilon (sold for U.S.$1.2B to Motorola) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Armin is a serial entrepreneur, having built and sold multiple companies.
Our core technology is called 4D Vision, which is built around proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies that control object recognition and robotic pose estimation and path planning.
4D Vision is run through robotic workcells using Apera Vue vision software. Vue is robot-agnostic and compatible with many of the leading robot brands. Vue gives robots new powers—significant faster decision-making and resilience to changes in light. By proving out applications in a simulation environment, customers have greater certainty of ROI from their automation investments.
Apera AI’s culture is highly technical with a strong engineering team. We operate at the intersection of the manufacturing and AI/ML/DL spaces.
We’re experiencing rapid growth in a large, global addressable market. People who join Apera AI want to affect the path of the company and see their work implemented by the world’s leading manufacturers.
Linamar Corporation was facing production uncertainty due to labor shortages. They turned to ABB Robotics and Apera AI for three machine tending cells that could continuously operate, and focus their people on productivity and quality.