Weston Robot, a technology company based in Singapore that has deployed more than 300 automatic computers across the island, created the canal washing machine. These include grass-cutting cutters at Jurong Lake Gardens and workers at Gardens by the Bay.
” With Iot, our robot is recognise there’s rubbish it, there’s debris there. Our machine can go there and accumulate wastes more effectively”, said the company’s main professor Zhang Yanliang.
Mr. Zhang claimed that using robots to save money on manual labor and eliminate the need to literally clear waterways.
” Now, the operator does n’t have to sit on a boat, which might be very slippery after rain, and the working environment is much more comfortable. We can relax in the handle area and manage the machine running”, he added.
SHIFT TOWARDS EMERGING TECH SHIFT
Weston Robot was among more than 40 entrepreneurs that shared and pitched answers and showcased prototypes , at the CleanEnviro Summit.
The National is funding improvements like the Falcon, a false ceiling assessment robot created by experts at the Singapore University of Technology and Design ( SUTD), as the sector shifts to technology and various rapidly-emerging technologies.
The research team’s development of robots to improve workplace safety and productivity was supported by NEA’s federal automation program.
According to Associate Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara, one of the SUTD researchers, the Falcon machine eliminates the need for pest control personnel to individually examine properties.
Made to get into tough- to- entry areas, it performs tasks that could be boring or harmful for its individual counterparts.
” ( By ) deploying the robots, pest control personnel can simply control, operate, monitor the robot, and the robot will go into the nooks and corners of false ceilings, looking for scratch marks and rodent droppings”, Assoc Prof Mohan noted.
A book programmable pavement sweeping robot named Panthera was also developed under the direction of SUTD.
With the help of computers, Assoc Prof Mohan said that employees now manage and supervise, rather than take off “ergonomically hard work techniques”.
” We now have a brand-new category of jobs that allow one person to operate five or ten robots simultaneously. And the robots take on tasks that are dull, ugly and dangerous”, he added.
” But we see a complete shift in jobs, with initiatives like Falcon and Pantera having a real effect.”