Kejuruteraan Asastera Berhad a company primarily involved in residential construction supporting the electrical and mechanical engineering aspect is looking to expand its offering in robotics, especially in combating Covid-19.
The company has entered into a strategic partnership with YL Global Ventures Sdn Bhd to commence into this new venture into the robotics solutions business. This strategic partnership with YLGV will see the incorporation of a JV company named KAB Robotic and Automation Solutions Sdn Bhd (“KAB Robotic”) with a total initial equity capital of RM100,000.
Under the aforementioned Term Sheet, KAB will own a 70% equity stake in KAB Robotic while YLGV will own the remaining 30%. In relation to this partnership, KAB and YLGV will jointly explore business opportunities to establish and develop the first robotics hub in Malaysia by leveraging on YLGV’s sole distributorship rights with OTSAW Technology Pte Ltd (“OTSAW”) and its proprietary robotics solutions.
Established in 2019, YLGV has procured an exclusivity agreement via its wholly owned subsidiary, Isenze Sdn Bhd with OTSAW to sell and distribute OTSAW’s robotics solutions in Malaysia. The company has been providing its innovative solutions and services to public and private clienteles in Singapore such as the government agencies, hospitality, healthcare, aviation and commercial building management facilities. OTSAW’s flagship product innovations include the ‘O-RX,’, ‘TreX’ and ‘AirGuard.’ The ‘O-RX’ is the world’s first autonomous disinfection robot using UV-C LED technology and is already in operation in a number of building facilities across various countries to ensure complete disinfection on both surfaces and air particles. ‘O-RX’ is designed for the retail, office, hotel, and healthcare sectors, to name a few.
Similarly, ‘TreX’ is a portable disinfection device built to disinfect confined areas such as hotel rooms and aircrafts. The ‘AirGuard’ integration solution offers similar disinfection features but is primarily installed directly within the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, thereby integrated directly within air condition ducts to disinfect air circulated indoors to inactivate viruses and bacteria by using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation. Aside from the above, the other products offered by OTSAW are ‘O-R2,’ a multi-purpose contact tracing and temperature taking robot; ‘O-R3’, an autonomous outdoor security robot; ‘Camello’, a last-mile autonomous delivery robot; and ‘AeroX’, an aviation-specific disinfection sterilisation robot. OTSAW’s robotics solutions have been clinically proven to achieve a disinfection efficacy of 99.9%.
“In light of the on-going global Covid-19 pandemic, health and hygiene compliances have been the utmost priority. With this said, we are excited to announce this partnership with YLGV, which has the exclusive right to distribute and sell OTSAW’s state-of-the-art, high quality and innovative robotics solutions, which are being deployed around the world, such as Australia, China, Thailand and Japan to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. As we are now preparing ourselves to live in an endemic, these robotic solutions will help to keep premises clean and free from viruses” said KAB managing director Dato’ Lai Keng Onn
This prospect is line with the groups expansion from electrical and engineering business division by providing value-added services, such as installing the ‘AirGuard’ robotics solutions into the HVAC systems.
