More builders look to robots to tackle Singapore’s construction labour crunch

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could ease Singapore’s reliance on foreign labour, which has been becoming more difficult to recruit and retain.

a lack of interest from locals to join the industry...The younger generation isn’t interested in this line because it is dirty, hard work. But if work is playing with robots, it might be something that attracts them

 use of robotics also reduces workers’ exposure to potentially hazardous environments...deployed drilling robots and remote-controlled robots that break concrete structures, keeping workers away from dust and vibration

robots have been able to achieve a level of precision and quality that workers cannot

the end goal is to eventually replace human beings on site, robots have to be as versatile and as agile as workers. “If I design a robot for one specific task, that is it. It may do that task extremely well, but chances are, I am not going to be able to get that robot to do something else

Qn: To what extent is artificial intelligence replacing the role of humans? (Cam. 2019)