Tigard artificial intelligence startup Rapta raised a $2.7 million seed round and opened an East Coast office in the Orlando area to expand its reach into the aerospace and defense industry along Florida’s Space Coast.
Rapta has developed an AI platform that uses cameras and computer vision to help manufacturers achieve higher quality assurance results and fewer errors. It does this by watching an assembly and then alerting the human worker to correct or incorrect work.
“It’s a way to prevent in real time a mistake being made,” said CEO Aaron Brown.
Rapta started in July 2021. It is built off the experience Brown had from working for Stanley Black & Decker Inc. where he was part of an innovation team trying to apply AI and machine learning to heavy equipment manufacturing as a way to solve tactical problems on the factory floor.
By adding an AI agent to the floor Brown sees the software as augmenting the human worker and helping to relieve some of the burden of quality control. For companies, the tool — which is trained with a no-code interface — can alleviate training and labor issues, he said.
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