SINGAPORE – A total of $60 million will be invested in the National Robotics Programme to develop robots and push more companies in the manufacturing, logistics and healthcare sectors to adopt robotics.
The company is known for its floor-cleaning robots – which trawl shopping malls, warehouses and schools – including its line of blue-eyed cleaners, LeoBots, which look like Eve from the Pixar animation movie Wall-E. “Many small and medium-sized enterprises may be interested in robotics, but they may not know how to adopt them, so that is something we need to discuss. In Lionsbot’s case, you can deploy the robots for cleaning. But can you do so for other aspects like food or facilities management?”
First formed in 2016, the NRP initially focused on robotics, but it has now ventured into R&D projects for standardised machines that are fit for a wide range of users, to drive adoption.