SINGAPORE – Robots fighting fires, assisting seniors in walking, and even sparring with one another – these are some of the sights that will greet visitors to the Science Centre Singapore’s first robotics and artificial intelligence festival this April.
RoboFest 2026: Meet Tomorrow, Today is a four-day festival that will run from April 9 to 12 with interactive experiences and live demonstrations across four zones.
The first zone, dubbed The Playground, will feature live demonstrations including a robot boxing showdown and a robot dog firefighting challenge, as well as a comedy performance entitled My Colleague Is A Robot Dog.
“Visitors will also get a chance to build robots, engage in AI prompt-crafting through a multi-player game and determine if an image or video is real or AI-generated,” the Science Centre said in a release.
The second zone, Robotics In Real Life, features a curated gallery of applied robotics and AI, centred on real-world problem-solving.
The National University of Singapore will showcase seven projects. These include a palm-sized robot which replicates the elegant swimming motions of an octopus, to demonstrate advanced soft robotics technology where machines are made of flexible materials that allow them to mimic biological movements.
Other NUS projects include an assistive robot with a flexible robotic arm that can support seniors with walking and fall prevention, as well as a household robot assistant that people can instruct to perform tasks such as throwing away rubbish.
Projects by the Singapore University of Technology and Design include Dragonfly, an autonomous robot that can attract and trap mosquitoes, while local firm Stellaris Robotics’ projects include UBtech Alpha Mini Wukong, a portable intelligent humanoid companion robot, and Yanshee, an open-source humanoid robot for AI education.
