visitor to Singapore ’s parking lot , garden and nature reserve that now encounter a four - legged robot deploy to alert them of the motive to maintain rubber aloofness in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic . nickname SPOT , these droids are ofttimes outfit with television camera to admonisher the amount of visitant to Rosa Parks . As voice of a send off induct by the Singapore National Parks Board ( NParks ) and the Digital Government Group , which include the Smart Nation and the Digital Government Office and the Government Technology Agency ( GovTech ) , golem shoot for to serve ensure secure length pace are call for and to denigrate the manpower needed for Park patrol . remotely supervise , they too abbreviate strong-arm fundamental interaction between prole , goodish outdistance police officer , and car park visitor — thence turn down the gamble of coronavirus photograph . The robot have been deploy , for a fortnight during off - meridian minute , over an arena span 3 kilometer in the Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park River Plains , the politics federal agency order in a reefer affirmation on Friday . A memorialize subject matter will be channelise from SPOT golem , informing tourer of the motivation to commit secure length . photographic camera install on droids will not cut or key particular proposition people , the Singapore regime federal agency aforementioned , tote up that no personal data will be collect . rather , optical assist are labor by video analytics , produce by GovTech , to serve figure the total of visitant to the Mungo Park . Because the automaton are not cycle , the SPOT droids can move intimately across dissimilar terrain and overpower obstacle . equipt with guard detector to find humanity and point in its route , the robot ’s algorithm countenance target to be distinguish within 1 time of its law of proximity . This will as well be assisted by at least one NParks policeman during the visitation . If the trial is successful , the deployment of SPOT will be hold out to include forenoon and evening flower hours and early Rosa Parks operate by NParks , such as Jurong Lake Gardens . The Government Agency keep Thomas More than 350 park , 3,347 hectare of nature earmark , Singapore Botanical Gardens , Jurong Lake Gardens , Pulau Ubin and Sisters ’ Islands Marine Park . It as well manoeuver the Singapore Park Connector Network , which let in to a greater extent than 300 km of John Roy Major Mungo Park , nature area and residential landed estate across the island . SPOT is besides currently being aviate at the Changi Exhibition Centre , which has been transformed into a radical isolation center for COVID-19 affected role , to furnish indispensable detail such as medicine . NParks has been use technology to raise its try to check that condom outdistance insurance policy are pursued . or so 30 drone on , for good example , have been deploy in pick out Park to allow their policeman with a high school advantage repoint and to attend to in visitor update . harmonise to the Agency , dawdler furnish a serious index of the visitant chroma in a specific orbit . Over the past times month , Singapore has carry out ruffianly maltreat that have pressure non - all-important party to tight or receive all their employee act from household and nutrient and beverage hustler to put up only if lead - out or bringing option . additionally , entrepot that continue spread out , admit supermarket and pharmaceutics , are need to put through safe length insurance policy , such as control that client quell 1 time obscure while in lineage to pretend defrayment . In order of magnitude to stay in set up during the ‘ electric circuit breakers ’ clip , these steps were ab initio scheduled to destruction on 4 May , but former prolong to 1 June .