Highlights

Singapore’s national swim team will get a new and improved “coach” – powered by artificial intelligence and leveraging drone technology. The system helps coaches
analyse their swimmers’ performance, including stroke duration, swimming velocity,
and the symmetry of the swimmer’s moving body, in real-time.

Four smart robots from SUTD made their way to Pasir Ris Park today to help their human teammates clean the beach – together with Guest-of-Honour, Mr Baey Yam Keng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (SPS) for the Minister of Sustainability and the Environment as well as the Ministry of Transport, and the SUTD community comprising students, faculty and staff.

SUTD’s pivot to AI is premised on the principle that AI should no longer be viewed as a technological tool to be used by humans, but as part of a human-machine team, working together hand-in-hand and leveraging on each other’s strengths to find innovative solutions for real-world problems.

Fifty-nine students from SUTD spent five days in March collaborating with various Temasek employees to find solutions for 19 problem statements posed by the global investment company.

Every single SUTD graduate from our undergraduate degree programmes is now recognised as being “design-trained”. This marks the first time all degrees in a university worldwide have been design accredited.

Dreaming of making your own music like Taylor Swift only you have no musical inclination at all? Fret not. Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed the first-of-its-kind music-domain-knowledge-inspired Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that generates music from text prompts.

The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 210,000 researchers from across the globe.