Dashboard to control all Home Team robots on trial at Toa Payoh in Singapore


A file photo of an autonomous robot named ‘Xavier’ patrolling a shopping and residential district during a three-week trial by HTX in Singapore. Orders from a single person would be executed synchronously by the robots. — AFP

SINGAPORE: A few taps on a mobile device may soon be all that is needed to deploy an entire fleet of police robots across the Republic.

Orders from a single person would then be executed synchronously by the robots, which include the Multi-purpose All-Terrain Autonomous Robots (Matar) and the Rover-X robotic dog.

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