{"id":139963,"date":"2022-05-30T03:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/from-baristas-to-inspectors-singapores-robot-workforce-plugs-labour-gaps"},"modified":"2022-05-30T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:02:18","slug":"from-baristas-to-inspectors-singapores-robot-workforce-plugs-labour-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/from-baristas-to-inspectors-singapores-robot-workforce-plugs-labour-gaps","title":{"rendered":"From baristas to inspectors: Singapore\u2019s robot workforce plugs labour gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-baristas-to-inspectors-singapores-robot-workforce-plugs-labour-gaps2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lack of a robotic hand that can match a human hand will continue to delay full automation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SINGAPORE, May 30 (Reuters) \u2014 After struggling to find staff during the pandemic, businesses in Singapore have increasingly turned to deploying robots to help carry out a range of tasks, from surveying construction sites to scanning library bookshelves.<\/p>\n<p>The city-state relies on foreign workers, but their number fell by 235,700 between December 2019 and September 2021, according to the manpower ministry, which notes how COVID-19 curbs have sped up \u201cthe pace of technology adoption and automation\u201d by companies.<\/p>\n<p>At a Singapore construction site, a four-legged robot called \u201cSpot\u201d, built by U.S. company Boston Dynamics, scans sections of mud and gravel to check on work progress, with data fed back to construction company Gammon\u2019s control room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of a robotic hand that can match a human hand will continue to delay full automation. SINGAPORE, May 30 (Reuters) \u2014 After struggling to find staff during the pandemic, businesses in Singapore have increasingly turned to deploying robots to help carry out a range of tasks, from surveying construction sites to scanning library bookshelves. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}