ST Engineering plans to establish a Transparency Centre in Singapore for autonomous platforms, due to open in the first quarter of 2027.
The facility will offer independent assurance services to assess and validate autonomous vehicles, drones, mobile robots and other cyber-physical systems before they are deployed in operational settings.
The move comes as AI-based systems shift from trial environments into business-critical use, drawing greater scrutiny over their safety, security and resilience. The new centre is intended to give organisations a way to examine those issues before systems enter real-world service.
The centre will provide assessments aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, aimed at identifying vulnerabilities, security weaknesses and software supply chain risks in autonomous systems.
A key part of the service will be binary analysis technology that inspects software binaries and firmware without access to proprietary source code. This allows third-party or closed systems to be examined even when customers or assessors cannot access the source code.
Beyond assessment, the centre is expected to support rectification work and cybersecurity upgrades. This could include stronger hardware roots of trust for systems handling sensitive data, as well as improved encryption for stored data and communications.
ST Engineering is positioning the operation around systems that combine software, hardware and networked functions, particularly where robots and autonomous machines interact with physical environments. These include smart city applications and other mission-critical uses where failure or compromise could disrupt operations.
In a statement, Goh Eng Choon, President, Cyber, ST Engineering, outlined the company's rationale for the project.
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