Welcome to The Robot Industry Podcast, edition #98. Sina Afrooze is the CEO of Apera. He leads an elite team of visionaries helping manufacturers make their factories more flexible and productive. Robots enhanced with Apera’s software have 4D vision—the ability to see and handle objects with human-like capability. Challenging applications such as bin picking, sorting, packaging, and assembly are now open to fast, precise and reliable automation. Apera is led by an experienced team from high-growth team members focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing.

Sina has 20 years of startup and large corporate experience in machine learning, deep learning, software, and systems architecture. He holds ten utility patents in his portfolio around AI, digital imaging, image processing, and media streaming.



Questions:



How did you get started in the business? 



What are some of the challenges in traditional bin picking using vision?



What is synthetic data when it comes to training Apera AI?



How long does it take to teach your system?



You use the term 4D, what do you mean by this?



Can you tell us some of the use cases?



Who is your perfect customer?



What is your booth number?



When you are not changing the robot AI world what do you like to do, hobbies?



How can people get a hold of you?



To find out more about Apera AI or you would like to reach out Sina, here is his LinkedIn profile.



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Regards,



Jim



Jim Beretta
Customer Attraction Industrial Marketing & The Robot Industry Podcast



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