Singapore Tech News & Gadget Reviews

A team at Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore robotics firm ACE Robotics has released Mundo, a world model that turns a handful of photographs of a real place into an editable three dimensional scene that robots can be trained inside. Take one to twelve pictures of a room, and Mundo builds a version of it with physics, then renders what a robot sees as it moves and manipulates objects in that copy.

Meta has built a prototype humanoid robot together with Fourier, the Shanghai robotics company, and has started work on a second version, according to a report by The Information that Reuters carried. The account rests on people familiar with the project rather than on any disclosure by either company, and Reuters did not independently confirm it.

Agoda has opened its AI Assistant to travellers in 21 markets, Singapore among them, letting people plan and book a trip inside one conversation in the app. The company describes it as the first brand new booking experience in its 20 plus year history, a rare structural change for a business built on search boxes and filter panels.