Robotics

Temasek’s Heliconia Capital invests in Crown Digital’s $3.7M Pre-Series A round

Crown Digital, the Singapore-based full-stack hardware and software tech start-up behind ELLA the robot barista, said Wednesday it has raised S5 million ($3.66 million) in a Pre-Series A round from Temasek Holdings’s Heliconia Capital Management, Momentum Ventures (SMRT), ParticleX, Leave a Nest, Gloca Link and M4ever.

SoftBank Robotics partners UnaBiz to integrate IoT and robotics to boost facility management operations efficiencies

SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., a robotics solutions provider under Softbank, announced Monday that it has partnered with UnaBiz, a massive internet of things (IoT) provider based in Singapore, to initiate a seamless integration of IoT sensors and robotics in building management and maintenance that will streamline work processes, allowing efficient…

Malaysia’s Petronas partners Waygate Technologies to commercialise co-developed robotic inspection solution

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas)'s technology commercialization arm Petronas Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd (PTVSB) said Friday it has entered into a partnership with Waygate Technologies Robotics AG (WTR) to commercialise a jointly developed robotic inspection device and scale its utilisation in the oil and gas industry. Based on the BIKE robotic system,…

Singapore’s Sesto Robotics bags $5.7M from WTI Germany, TRIVE and SEEDS Capital

Sesto Robotics has raised $5.7 million funding from institutional investors TRIVE, German-based World Trading Inovation WTI GmbH and SEEDS Capital. It will be utilizing the funds raised for enhancing its capability to support overseas partners and to invest in digital marketing. In addition, the company will continue to invest in the development of its…

DroneTech startup Poladrone raises $4.29 M in Malaysia’s largest Seed round

The funding round will allow Poladrone to scale up operations to better serve customers across the region and to attract top talent to further improve its products.