Open Robotics has an amazing team of highly specialised software developers, hardware developers and technical artists. They are the global leader in the industry, providing software solutions and services worldwide – creating novel solutions to the world's most challenging robotic problems. They offer Robotics R&D, consulting, custom engineering, and application development services to industry, academia, and government to create and support open-source software and hardware for Robotics – from research and education to commercial product development.

Their local team is growing and has resident expertise and technology know-how in robot middleware, robot software development, infrastructure integrations, and robot fleet simulations. Working with their global company and community, they create and support three open-source products: ROS, Gazebo and the locally developed Robotics Middleware Framework (RMF). These tools are relied upon by hundreds of thousands of users and developers around the world.

Project: Robotics Middleware Framework (RMF)

As a Trainee, you will be working with the team to scale up RMF - a collection of reusable, scalable software libraries and tools building on top of ROS 2 that enable the interoperability of heterogeneous fleets of any robotic systems. It utilises standardised communication protocols to infrastructure, environments and automation where robots are deployed to optimise critical resources (e.g. robots, lifts, doors, passageways, etc). It also adds intelligence to the system through resource allocation and prevents conflicts over shared resources through the RMF Core.

OTSAW is a global pioneer in advanced Robotics technologies and next-generation Artificial Intelligence for healthcare, security delivery and mobility applications to improve safety, business processes and everyday lives.

Project: Project OR

As a Trainee, you will be working on some of OTSAW’s Robotics solutions for security, concierge, disinfection and delivery purposes. One such project is ORX - the world’s first UV-C LED autonomous disinfection robot to be time & cost-efficient, environmentally friendly, and easily customisable to any aircraft configuration. The patented UV-C LED has been successfully lab-tested against live human coronavirus samples, achieving a disinfection efficacy of 99.9% within 5 minutes at a range of 2.5 meters.

Weston Robot is a Singapore-based Deep Tech Robotics company that focuses on developing Robotics solutions in the post-pandemic period and helping industries accelerate robot adoption. Weston Robot provides a wide range of robot products and services, such as indoor and outdoor wheeled robots, tracked robots, quadruped robots, on-water boats, exoskeletons and Robotics software. They specialise in the embedded software framework and toolchain for robot deployment. Weston Robot’s COVID-19 robots, such as the disinfection robot, mask and social distance detection robot, have been used widely to cope with the pandemic.

Project: Software Robotics Engineer

As a Trainee, you will focus on projects to relieve post-pandemic challenges, including a Mask and Social Distancing Checking Robot and a Fine Mist Disinfecting Robot for outdoor use. You will have the opportunity to work with many deployed robots and make new deployable functionalities, work with great engineers and learn the state-of-art workflow and toolchains.

Cognicept provides hybrid Robotics AI with their Smart+ telerobotic intervention technology and remote robot pilots. They make economical and straightforward ways to deploy robots, bridging the gap between the technology's capabilities and their customers' needs.

Their supervised autonomy tools and services make unpredictable applications reliable and expand the potential of the robots. These tools help prototyping and testing during Robotics development and save the time and effort of forming a new team to develop these tools internally.

Project: Internet Controlled Robotic Showcase

As a Trainee, you will work with Robotics OEM and system integrators from across the globe. You will also play an important role in projects like indoor delivery robots working in hospitality, retail, medical applications, and surveillance robots for indoor and outdoor environments.

Globotix specialises in the niche industry of Robotics and high technologies for the environment sector in Singapore. From as early as 2016, they have been transforming the local Facilities Management scene with AI-enabled robots that channel the powers of computer vision, advanced monitoring, real-time optimisation, analytics software, data streaming, and so much more! From a trailblazing first mover to their current undisputed market leader status in the Facilities Management field, Globotix’s innovative product offerings continue to deliver impactful real-world results in the ever-challenging marketplace that enterprises face today. They remain dedicated to doing great things in the Hi-Tech space – always driving the next wave of cutting-edge technology globally.

Project: Flexa

As a Trainee, you will work with the team to develop an entirely new form of Robotics that promises to digitise the current way the Facilities Management industry works. The project’s success will enable the mass adoption and integration of robots enterprise-wide, even industry-wide, with far-reaching implications even for new business arenas.

BeeX provides new ways of conducting underwater operations with their Autonomous Marine Vehicles, designed and manufactured here in Singapore. You will be working with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, helping their customers #BreakFree of traditional limitations with autonomy.

Project: Electrical Design for Autonomous Marine System

The electrical team will be working on the Autonomous Marine System (AMS). It will integrate their flagship A.IKANBILIS Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV) onto a catamaran Unmanned Surface Vessel, set to be launched by 2022. As a Trainee, you will be working with various sensors (radar, lidar, cameras), communication systems, and actuators (propulsion and motors). As part of your exposure, you will also be supporting sea trials for A.IKANBILIS, where you will learn how to work with an intelligent, self-thinking robot!

Xnergy is a Venture and Sovereign-backed local Deep Tech startup headquartered in Singapore since 2017. The company focuses on innovative charging technology for mobile robots and has successfully created the smallest high power universal contactless charger in the market. They have a team of founding members with strong industrial experience and are active in Asia and Europe for pilots with several Fortune 500 companies.

Project: Autonomous Mobile Contactless Charging Robot for Electric Vehicle

Parking lots have a fixed location of wired charging stations. Hence, the charging process is manual, therefore requiring users to plug and unplug the wire. As a Trainee, you will work with the team to develop autonomous mobile contactless charging robot for electric vehicles (EV). The mobile charger itself is a robot that moves and find the parked EVs that requests charging even if the EVs do not park accurately.

LionsBot International is a Singapore-based Robotics company that creates cleaning robots to serve commercial, industrial and public spaces. The founders bring their expertise in cleaning and Robotics; and transfer them to life in the form of highly versatile cleaning robots. Every piece of software and hardware is developed entirely by their engineers with pride. Their homegrown solutions offer you complete peace of mind as they know their robots’ ins and outs thoroughly. They are guided by their vision to transform everyday living for over 50 million people with smart cleaning robots that people love.

Unlike other cleaning robots, LionsBot robots are designed to work in teams with each robot performing a specialised function. Each robot has a pioneering human-robot interface with no buttons or screens; rather control and communication is through the cloud scheduling, apps and the robot will send feedback through its vibrant personality.

LionsBot’s core business is to design and manufacture cleaning robots. Its main customers are professional cleaning equipment distributors and dealers across the world. LionsBot’s first product is LeoScrub, 1 out of the 16 robots from the Leobot family of floor cleaning robots. Its vision is to develop many specialised robots across many families tackling all buildings and environments, making cleaning robots beneficial to mankind!

Project: Computer Vision Perception Module

As a Trainee, you will be part of the current Autonomy team to develop localisation, perception and navigation software stack to achieve the best performance autonomy. Within the Autonomy team, you will have independent deliverables and will be expected to take full ownership of executing them.

Oceania Robotics is a Singapore based Robotics company that manufactures pioneering autonomous Robotics solutions in the niche area of pest maintenance, ship maintenance and façade inspection. With a comprehensive product roadmap and an expert team of robot developers, the company delivers products and services that target pest control, inspection, cleaning, painting and paint stripping of the ship hull. With a full suite of Robotics platforms, Oceania Robotics brings several first of its kind autonomous and modular capabilities, significantly improving productivity, efficiency and safety.

Having established strong partnerships with pest control companies, local shipyards, maintenance contractors, universities, and support from governmental agencies, Oceania Robotics is very well positioned to be a global front runner in these newly emerging industries.

Project: Pest Control Inspection in False Ceiling

Falcon is a robot that patrols false ceiling environment to identify hotspot of rodent activities autonomously. The robot recognises and identifies rodent droppings via Machine Learning. Through recognition, it will identify the rodent activities and hotspot at the false ceiling. The robot will also collect the droppings for cleaning and lab testing purpose while dispensing rodenticide at selected areas. Operating in a false ceiling environment is tricky as there is no standard for designing and installing it. The robot operating in the false ceiling environment will also have to be compact and lightweight. As a Trainee, you will be involved to help develop the autonomy for the robot to operate under these constraints.

Hand Plus Robotics is a software Robotics company specialising in unstructured picking - this is characterised as:

1. The Products are difficult to be seen or handled due to their shape, packaging, or even variety
2. The location to be deployed is undesirable (e.g. messy or packed warehouses)
3. During the picking process - this may require dexterity depending on the product or packaging

Their core technology is a software toolbox called APP+ (AI-Powered Picking and More), which offers 3 types of robotic picking cells. Pick+ is an intelligent multi-item fast bin picking, Move+ is a mobile picker, and Pack+ is picking integrated with complementary automation. APP+ leverages AI to enable the vision, grasping, and Robotics to handle various item and picking conditions.

Hand Plus is a spin-off company from Nanyang Technological University Singapore and has won awards for its picking solutions, including the Amazon Robotics Challenge, DHL Robotics Challenge, and IROS Mobile Manipulation Challenge. They envision a world where robots are working alongside humans wherever, whenever, and whatever material handling is required.

Project: Pick+ and Move+ MVP Development

As a Trainee, you will be building picking solutions for various customers, including those in the logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. For example, we build picking solutions that inspects and kits products. We also have mobile picking robots (an agv with robot arm on top) that collects and delivers orders. Aside from robotic solutions, you will be developing robotic modules on AI, robot vision, gripper design, grasping algorithms, motion planning algorithms, user interfaces, SLAM, and a whole lot more.

Augmentus is an AI-Robotics company that offers the first no-code and fully integrated robot programming platform, enabling non-technical users to program industrial robots in minutes instead of months. This is done through an intuitive graphical interface on an iPad that eliminates the need for coding and CAD files in robot teaching. Their clients include some of the world’s leading robot manufacturers and automation providers where they empower manufacturers to recoup ROI faster by lowering the time, cost, and skill barriers in industrial automation.

Project: Fully-Integrated and Offline Robot Simulator for AI-Robot Programming

Advanced AI and Robotics feature sets are currently being developed and incorporated into Augmentus’ platform to streamline the development and operational processes in robotic systems. As a Trainee, you will be involved in building core functionalities, algorithms, and features to deploy the company’s no-code robot programming software to industrial companies together with a team of Robotics experts. You will also have the chance to work on no-code robot path pattern projections for instantaneous industrial robot teaching.

Movel AI is a Deep Tech company building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for robot navigation, providing a complete robot localisation and navigation solution based on advanced Computer Vision and sensor fusion technologies. This enables the robot to move in a complex environment. Movel AI’s algorithm can remember vast amounts of visual features from the 3D environment and rely on these features to localise the Automated Guided Vehicle. The company’s flagship product, Seirios, is the harmonisation of web and Robotics tech stacks; providing users with an easy-to-use interface to control their robotic mobility platforms.

Project: Autonomous Navigation for Robots

Movel AI is continuously improving its autonomous navigation software. As a Trainee, you will be part of the team developing new features such as autonomous navigation in tight spaces, object detection and tracking with an accuracy error of less than 1cm. You will also be working on integrating software and different hardware from other Robotics companies, and will be trained to debug different types of Robotics issues.