Tacta opens Singapore facility to manufacture tactile-capture hardware for industrial robotics
Tacta Systems has opened an office and production facility in Woodlands, Singapore, where it will initially produce the Tacta Glove used in the company’s robotics skill-capture system. The company announced the opening in a 24 September release via PR Newswire.
The facility is Tacta’s first manufacturing and engineering base outside the United States. It will initially support glove production as the company prepares for planned customer deployments in electronics, AI infrastructure and automotive manufacturing from early 2027. Those deployments are planned, not current operating outcomes.
The glove is used to capture force, motion and temperature data from skilled workers alongside video data, which Tacta says feeds its system for training robotic hands. The company also says it is working with A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics to scale production of tactile sensors.
The company describes the Singapore operation as a production and engineering base rather than a completed customer rollout. That distinction matters: the facility makes the manufacturing footprint current, while the announced deployments remain a 2027 objective. The release does not disclose production capacity, customer contracts, product yield or revenue from the site.
Woodlands is a practical location for this type of work because the story concerns physical components, testing and assembly rather than a remote software office. Tacta says the planned local team will cover manufacturing, engineering and test engineering. Its collaboration with A*STAR is described as work to scale tactile-sensor production, not proof that scaled output has already been achieved.
The announcement therefore adds a named operating site to the region's robotics-hardware map. It does not establish a finished commercial deployment cycle.
For Singapore’s advanced-manufacturing ecosystem, the completed facility is the present development; customer deployment, production volume and commercial traction remain unreported. Tacta says manufacturing, engineering and test-engineering hiring will accelerate in the fourth quarter.