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Who founded Apera AI?
Techcouver reported on 2024-10-02 that Apera AI was founded in 2017 by Sina Afrooze and Armin Khatoonabadi.
What role did Armin Khatoonabadi hold at Apera AI?
Engineering.com, in a 2021-05-04 article on Apera's 4D vision, identified him as co-founder and CEO and quoted him explaining how the system processes a scene. By the July 2025 Series A, The Robot Report (2025-07-28) named Sina Afrooze as Apera's founder and CEO.
What has Armin Khatoonabadi done since Apera AI?
The Robot Industry Podcast's episode #133, published 2025-02-21, featured him as a guest from Maple Advanced Robotics Inc. of Richmond Hill, Ontario, and said he had recently joined that company from Apera (spelled "Apara.ai" on the page). The episode page does not state his title there.
How does Apera AI's 4D vision differ from 3D vision, in his words?
Engineering.com reported on 2021-05-04 that Khatoonabadi said the system uses more AI and pays attention not only to edges but to occlusion, textures and shadows, an approach he compared to human perception rather than conventional 3D computer vision.