Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and Delta Electronics, continuing their close collaboration in research & development for advanced technologies. The lab, supported under Singapore's National Research Foundation's Research Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 plan, will develop over three years next-generation technologies aimed at overcoming labour shortage challenges for the manufacturing and intralogistics - the logistical flows of goods and materials that take place on a company's site - industries. Collaborative robotic systems are set to become a staple as businesses transit into Industry 5.0, and as the world grapple with a manpower crunch arising from an ageing workforce and declining birth-rates.

Such systems include human-touch inspired robots that can adjust their grip to pick up a range of materials, from fragile glassware to volatile chemicals, and smart sensing, radar and 3D sensors systems, which allow autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to operate in a dynamic environment with human traffic like hospitals and warehouses. The joint lab was launched in a ceremony attended by Minister of State for the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Mr. Alvin Tan; NTU President Professor Ho Teck Huaand Delta Electronics Chairman, Mr. Yancey Hai. The establishment of the joint lab marks a new phase of the partnership between NTU and Delta Electronics.

In 2016, the Delta - NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems was launched with a focus on using cyber-physical systems to build technological capabilities for use in Smart Manufacturing and Smart Learning. In 2018, the lab was expanded to accommodate more research activities. The first chapter of the collaboration has achieved success.

Over the five years, the team filed 17 patents, of which 8 have been issued, and submitted over 200 papers to journals and conferences.