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SUTD students Puah Joon Leng and Anieyrudh R., together with Senior Lecturer Sumbul Khan, shared with The Straits Times how the deliberate and responsible use of AI can preserve critical thinking and encourage “productive struggle” in learning.

SUTD student Anieyrudh R. shared with The Straits Times practical ways to use AI as a learning aid—such as asking it to critique rather than complete one’s work—while Senior Lecturer Sumbul Khan’s Feynman Bot was highlighted as a tool that strengthens understanding by prompting students to explain concepts clearly.

With climate change and increasingly recurrent extreme weather events, sewers and drainage infrastructure requires more frequent inspection and maintenance. Iguana, a robot designed and developed by Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara and his research team can help with such inspections, increasing work efficiency and worker safety.

SUTD Senior Lecturer Teo Tee Hui shared his views on how understanding energy labels can help consumers save energy and money.

Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara and his team developed a fall mitigation system for robots using design, AI and technology.

SUTD Senior Lecturer Teo Tee Hui shared that acidic fruit juice, including from pineapples, may damage stone flooring such as marble if not cleaned promptly, especially in Singapore’s hot weather.

Singapore is positioning itself as a hub for “physical AI” robots and autonomous systems that can clean buildings, deliver goods, patrol public spaces, etc. Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara shares some insights on this.

Australian tech company Nanoveu has acquired SUTD start-up, Spinoff Robotics, which specialises in advanced semiconductor, visualisation and materials sciences.

In this opinion piece, Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara shares why ASEAN’s most dangerous work should no longer be done by humans, and provides examples of robots that can enter into the hazardous environment first to collect data and send real-time information back to the human operator outside.

Senior lecturer Dr Teo Tee Hui shares some insights on what this second metal recovery facility should be capable of handling and that it should be designed with room for technological expansion