Autonomous robots to weed out ‘undesirable social behaviours’ in Singapore


Xavier has cameras with a 360-degree field of vision and is able to alert public officers in real time. — The Straits Times (Singapore)/ANN

SINGAPORE: Rumbling around on four wheels as it patrols the town centre near Toa Payoh HDB Hub, Xavier encounters a man taking a puff from a cigarette in an area where smoking is not allowed.

Within seconds, video footage of this is sent to a command and control centre and fed into a video analytics system programmed to recognise the man’s posture, the outline of the cigarette in his mouth, and other visual indicators.

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