Robot

The Singapore Prison Service has developed an autonomous robotic unit, named PROTECT, to strengthen surveillance and help officers respond to incidents, as part of a broader push to bring new technology into its institutions.

Singapore-based autonomous robot builder Hivebotics has raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, to move its restroom-cleaning robot from pilot deployments into volume production.

Vietnam is calling for development of a home-grown fleet of 40 self-driving robots to sweep its city streets, the first project put out for tender by the national science fund Nafosted under a program to build strategic technologies.

China's Orbbec has broken ground on its overseas manufacturing factory in the northern province of Bac Ninh in Vietnam, as the 3D vision sensor maker moves to build a more resilient global production network.

Germany's Infineon Technologies and VinRobotics, a robotics company established by Vietnam's conglomerate Vingroup, will collaborate on the development of humanoid robots, with a joint competency center to be established at VinRobotics' Hanoi office.

VinRobotics and VinDynamics, two technology subsidiaries under Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, have displayed unveiled their humanoid robots at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026) in Vienna and COMPUTEX Taipei 2026.

Fushan Technology (Vietnam), a subsidiary of Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry), is seeking permission to manufacture humanoid robots in its factory in Vietnam's northern province of Bac Ninh.