During the epidemic period, there was a serious labor shortage in Singapore's enterprises, prompting robot labor to increasingly replace human labor to complete various tasks. According to the data of the Ministry of human resources, Singapore is heavily dependent on foreign labor. However, from december2019 to September 2021, the number of foreign workers decreased by 235700. Due to the limitation of the epidemic situation, enterprises have to accelerate the pace of adopting technology and automation.
Nowadays, robots can be seen in various working scenes. For example, on the construction site, a quadruped robot named "point" manufactured by Boston power company in the United States scanned the soil and gravel sections, checked the work progress, and fed back the data to the construction company. The person in charge said that only one employee was required to use the robot, while two employees were required to manually complete the work.
At the same time, the National Library of Singapore has introduced two bookshelf scanning robots, which can scan the labels of 100000 books a day, about 30% of the collection. The daily work of manpower is greatly reduced. In addition, Singapore has also set up robot baristas in more than 30 subway stations. Keith Tan, CEO of the manufacturer crown digital, said that the company is helping to solve the shortage of food and beverage employees and has created well paid jobs to help automate the industry.
According to a 2021 report of the international robotics Federation, there are 605 robots per 10000 employees in Singapore's manufacturing industry, ranking second in the world, second only to 932 in South Korea.
