‘Dystopian world’: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state

Trial of robots to police undesirable' behaviour such as smoking or breaching social-distancing rules

Singapore has trialled patrol robots that blast warnings at people engaging in undesirable social behaviour", adding to an arsenal of surveillance technology in the tightly controlled city-state that is fuelling privacy concerns.

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.