AI humanoid robots to be deployed with Home Team officers by 2028: Edwin Tong
The Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre is the first facility dedicated to developing AI humanoid robots for public safety.
Singapore's Second Minister for Home Affairs, Edwin Tong, announced that AI-powered humanoid robots will be deployed alongside Home Team officers by 2028. These robots will work in real operational settings, supporting officers in tasks that are routine, physically demanding, or dangerous. The robots will not replace Human Home Team officers but free them up to focus on empathy, judgement, and leadership.
A $100 million investment has been made to establish the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC) in One-North. This centre, run by HTX, aims to develop robots for public safety enforcement, including ambulance resupply, hazmat operations, post-blast investigations, and prison cell searches. Tong highlighted the safety benefits of robots, stating that they can handle dangerous tasks while keeping officers out of harm's way.
Tong emphasized the need to bring AI from the digital world to the physical one, citing the aging workforce in Singapore. The H2RC will be a 29,000 sq ft facility, fostering collaborations between the Home Team, industry, and academia. It will support the development of AI humanoid robots in motion-capture systems, human demonstration, simulation, data collection, and physical testing.
The centre will also focus on agentic AI capabilities, allowing robots to complete multi-step missions, recover from failures, and adapt to changing environments.
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