In Singapore’s central business district, delivery robots now pound the pavements alongside smartly-clad businessmen. With two googly, animated eyes and lockers on their back, the robots navigate automatic doors, elevators and turnstiles, delivering packages right to an office’s front door.
These robots are the creation of Singapore-based AI logistics firm QuikBot Technologies. Alan Ng founded QuikBot in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Restaurants and eateries shuttered as people sheltered in place, but e-commerce boomed in the pandemic years, causing the demand for delivery services to skyrocket.
