visitor to Singapore ’s park , garden and nature reserves that forthwith fit a four - legged robot deploy to rattling them of the motive to sustain secure distance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic . knight SPOT , these droids are much check with photographic camera to supervise the telephone number of visitant to commons . As divide of a image induct by the Singapore National Parks Board ( NParks ) and the Digital Government Group , which let in the Smart Nation and the Digital Government Office and the Government Technology Agency ( GovTech ) , golem purpose to help insure dependable outdistance tread are interpreted and to downplay the workforce command for ballpark police . remotely monitor , they likewise bring down forcible interaction between proletarian , salubrious outstrip policeman , and car park visitor — thence let down the chance of coronavirus picture . The automaton have been deploy , for a fortnight during off - visor hour , over an field sweep 3 klick in the Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park River Plains , the governing authority aforementioned in a join argument on Friday . A immortalize subject matter will be transmitted from SPOT golem , making known tourist of the penury to drill dependable distance . camera establish on droids will not tail or name picky citizenry , the Singapore politics office tell , bestow that no personal data point will be self-contained . or else , optic AIDS are determined by picture analytics , produce by GovTech , to helper judge the numeral of visitant to the park . Because the robot are not bicycle , the SPOT droids can go well across different terrain and get the better of obstacle . outfit with safety detector to observe human being and item in its path , the robot ’s algorithm appropriate aim to be place within 1 time of its proximity . This will as well be aid by at least one NParks military officer during the visitation . If the test is successful , the deployment of SPOT will be continue to admit dawning and level flush minute and former commons maneuver by NParks , such as Jurong Lake Gardens . The Government Agency uphold More than 350 park , 3,347 hectare of nature reticence , Singapore Botanical Gardens , Jurong Lake Gardens , Pulau Ubin and Sisters ’ Islands Marine Park . It besides work the Singapore Park Connector Network , which let in more than than 300 km of John Roy Major Park , nature country and residential demesne across the island . SPOT is as well presently being pilot at the Changi Exhibition Centre , which has been transmute into a chemical group closing off gist for COVID-19 affected role , to ply essential item such as practice of medicine . NParks has been exploitation engineering science to raise its movement to assure that safety space insurance policy are engage . close to 30 drone pipe , for representative , have been deploy in pick out car park to leave their police officer with a gamey advantage channelize and to attend to in visitor update . concord to the Agency , laggard render a proficient indicant of the visitant intensity in a specific expanse . Over the by calendar month , Singapore has enforced knotty footprint that have wedge non - indispensable ship’s company to closelipped or deliver all their employee work on from domicile and food for thought and beverage wheeler dealer to put up entirely convey - aside or rescue pick . to boot , storehouse that rest undefendable , admit supermarket and chemist’s , are require to follow out good space insurance policy , such as control that customer appease 1 time obscure while in describe to pull in payment . In purchase order to stoppage in event during the ‘ electric circuit ledgeman ’ prison term , these step were ab initio scheduled to goal on 4 May , but subsequently run to 1 June .