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Ibrahim is a scientist&entrepreneur who began his journey in synthetic biology, engineering bacteria for biological cooling systems, smell detection, and resonance-induced protein synthesis. This led him into protein engineering and bioinformatics, his first deep dive into machine learning eight years ago. He later joined an AI startup and conducted research on robotics and action recognition models at universities. Today, he is the co-founder and CEO of Kanaria Tech, where he and his team are tackling one of the toughest problems in AI: building embodied intelligence to give robots human-level social awareness and the ability to learn on their own.

Instead of just zeros and ones, we at Kanaria Tech give robots the ability to understand the world around them. By developing KRM (Kanaria Robotic Model), a robotic foundation model, we are giving robots social awareness, a personality, a unique style. We want them to learn from humans directly by imitating them, by getting verbal feedbacks from them and learning from mistakes. Understanding human intention, finding a gentle way to move around people to not disturb them are the strengths of KRM. We are teaching robots how to be respectful, how to be thoughtful, how to be gentle and be very smart with their movements. Robots can support humanity and can become enablers. And with KRM, we believe we can create an alternative timeline where humans and robots are happy together!