robotics

Investing strategies

Is it too late to invest in robots?

SINGAPORE (Oct 20): Omron Asia Pacific’s new Automation Centre (ATC) at Alexandra Technopark offers a glimpse into the future of manufacturing: one where production lines without conveyer belts can churn out customised products as quickly as generic goo

Results

EY posts US$31 bil in FY17 global revenue with highest growth rate from Asia Pacific

SINGAPORE (Sept 5): EY, the multinational professional services firm, posted a 7.8% growth in combined global revenues to US$31.4 billion ($42.6 billion) for the full year ended June from a year ago.

Commentary

Twenty years after the Asian crisis, what are the prospects for the region?

SINGAPORE (July 3): Two decades ago, several Asian economies were shattered by a series of financial, economic and political crises that set the region back badly.

Currencies

Thailand’ ‘super-baht’ may be too strong for its own good

BANGKOK (June 30): Two decades ago, Thailand became ground zero of the Asia financial crisis, when its government scrapped a dollar peg with the baht, a devaluation that unleashed a wave of speculative attacks on other regional currencies and shook the gl

Tech

Robots may help defuse demographic time bomb in Japan, Germany

MUMBAI (May 30): Japan and Germany may be sitting on a ticking demographic time bomb where aging populations begin to drag down economic growth. Good thing they’re also prime candidates for robot revolutions.

Aviation & Engineering

SATS launches $21 mil automated airside e-commerce mail sortation hub

SINGAPORE (April 13): SATS today officially launched its new eCommerce AirHub, a $21 million facility ranging 6,000 sq m and co-funded by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS).

Tech

China’s robotics spending projected to hit $83 bil in 2020

SINGAPORE (April 4): China’s spending on robotics and related service is projected to more than double in the years to come, growing to US$59.4 billion ($83 billion) in 2020 from US$24.6 billion currently, according to IDC’s latest edition of its Worl

Tech

Asia Pacific spending on robotics set to double by 2020

SINGAPORE (Jan 16): Investment in robotics and related services are expected to double from the current $60 billion to more than $133 billion in the Asia Pacific region by 2020.

Tech

Driverless cars to continue to drive disruptive technology in 2017

SINGAPORE (Dec 27): Autonomous vehicles are set to remain the most disruptive technology in 2017, following the debut of the world’s first self-driving taxi in Singapore in August this year.
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