{"name":"Applied AI in Macao — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Macao, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/macao","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Macao","slug":"macao","iso2":"MO","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":12,"deployments":8,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":2,"industries":4,"countries":1,"linked":12},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Macao","role":"Resort guest services staff","org":"Sands China","text":"Sands China is using AI guide robots in hospitality: a first batch of Tutu units from Alibaba's Amap steers guests around Sands Resorts Macao, from NBA House in The Venetian. One 11-hour trial logged 214 direction requests and 4,546 queries in Chinese and English. Staff will work alongside these resort concierge robots.","date":"2026-10-12","source":"https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/10/12/amap-and-sands-china-deploy-tutu-robot-dogs-as-resort-guides-in-macau/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","role":"Meteorologist","org":"Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG)","text":"Storm tracking in Macao just got smarter: the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) confirmed it now runs AI severe weather prediction tools across daily forecasting, alerting and hazard analysis. Ho Ion Sang, a lawmaker, prompted the disclosure through a written question to the bureau. Ties with Chinese meteorological agencies continue, and MAZU, the bureau's smart weather platform, is set for an upgrade toward AI-based weather forecasting alerts.","date":"2026-09-15","source":"https://pontofinal-macau.com/2026/09/15/smg-apostam-na-ia-para-melhorar-capacidade-de-previsao-de-fenomenos-meteorologicos-severos/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","role":"Vehicle registration officer","org":"Transport Bureau (DSAT) of Macao","text":"Macao Transport Bureau (DSAT) has opened an AI Analysis Platform plus an online application system for AI vehicle type approval of brand and model filings. Dealers' paperwork is pre-checked before formal lodging, flagging mistakes and gaps. Built-in machine translation should speed AI-assisted approval work and shorten turnaround.","date":"2026-09-08","source":"https://www.gcs.gov.mo/news/detail/pt/N26IHJvtty"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Macao","role":"Employee","org":"MGM China","text":"MGM Cotai has installed a flagship TCM AI health station giving staff on-site AI-assisted Traditional Chinese Medicine screening. Devices read biometric signals from the tongue, face and pulse to flag over 500 possible conditions. The Macau Federation of Trade Unions, the Macao Society for Music Promotes Health Research and Kiang Wu Hospital jointly run the scheme for workers in Macao.","date":"2026-08-11","source":"https://macaudailytimes.com.mo/tcm-ai-health-station-launched-to-support-worker-well-being.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Macao","role":"Radiologist","org":"Macao Health Bureau (SSM)","text":"Annual capacity tripled at Macao's Health Bureau (SSM) once AI-assisted diabetic retinopathy screening began under AI healthcare imaging, slashing per-patient exams from 15 minutes to 2, Alvis Lo said. An AI medical image reading system runs alongside a piloted AI-assisted diagnosis system, an AI diagnostic tool aiding physicians' clinical calls. Officials will fold these into the Macao One Account health platform.","date":"2026-07-31","source":"https://www.ageing.ias.gov.mo/news/announcement/post_4890"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","org":"Labour Affairs Bureau of Macao","text":"Macao's Labour Affairs Bureau has added AI courses for older residents to its Digital Skills Upgrading and Certification Programme, aiming to lift job prospects for this group. Over 40 sessions ran the year before, drawing 800-plus attendees. This AI skills programme for older workers extends the territory's digital-literacy push.","date":"2026-07-04","source":"https://macaubusiness.com/labour-bureau-launches-ai-introductory-courses-for-middle-aged-elderly-residents/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","role":"Immigration officer","org":"Macao Public Security Police Force","text":"Face-scan border clearance in Macao now spans 204 automated channels at every joint checkpoint, after officials activated gates at Qingmao Port and the Zhuhai-Macao hall of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Port on 26 June 2026. A Hengqin Port trial in November 2025 preceded this wider, paperless border-crossing launch, open to registered Macao residents, Hong Kong permanent residents and mainland travellers aged 14 or above.","date":"2026-06-26","source":"https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202606/26/WS6a3dd76ba310986e2b46205a.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Macao","org":"Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ)","text":"Macao's Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) will fund AI experimental classrooms in local schools from 2026/27, via a new grant under the Education Fund's School Development Subsidy Programme. Primary and secondary pupils will also get AI teaching materials and a smart teaching platform covering question banks, paper-setting and marking, all automated -- part of a wider AI in education push.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://macaubusiness.com/macau-to-fund-ai-experimental-classrooms-in-schools-from-2026-27/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","role":"Food safety inspector","org":"Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) of Macao","text":"Macao's Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) applies AI food safety risk assessment via a new Food Safety Risk Monitoring and Assessment Network Prediction and Early Alert Platform. Built since 2023 with Chinese mainland research institutes, it tracks 109,907 pre-packaged food products through AI-assisted food safety monitoring. Since 2026, six alerts have gone out: 148 SMS texts, 374 emails.","date":"2026-06-05","source":"https://www.gcs.gov.mo/news/detail/en/N26FEWls18"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","org":"Macao SAR Government","text":"Wong Sio Chak says Macao plans to avoid heavy-handed Macao AI regulation, fearing rules could stifle innovation. Legal frameworks for artificial intelligence are still being worked out globally by trial and error, he argued, so strict rules now risk doing more harm than good. Macao has no AI-specific legislation yet, unlike mainland China, which is racing to pass its own AI governance framework.","date":"2026-04-01","source":"https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/tech/2965866/macau-quer-evitar-regulamentacao-excessiva-da-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","role":"Civil servant","org":"Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) of Macao","text":"Macao's Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) has introduced an AI platform for government departments, running large-scale reasoning, multimodal and language models from within the government cloud computing centre for exclusive internal office use. By the count, 28 departments and around 5,000 registered users have signed on, with the system handling tasks from document drafting and image recognition to content production, voice transcription and data analysis. The bureau has also added an AI office platform for public administration on its service hotline, helping staff handle public enquiries.","date":"2026-02-28","source":"https://macaubusiness.com/sar-to-avoid-excessive-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence-secretary-wong/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Macao","org":"Personal Data Protection Bureau (PDPB)","text":"Nine Asia-Pacific privacy regulators, led by Macao's Personal Data Protection Bureau (PDPB) and Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), now back a shared framework for AI data anonymisation. Their \"Guide to Getting Started with Anonymisation\" pushes organisations to scrub identifying details from records before these enter AI models, walking through five phases: locating the relevant data, wiping direct identifiers, deploying anonymisation tools, gauging re-identification exposure, and taming that exposure over time. Put simply, anonymising personal data for AI model training turns into a mandatory groundwork step.","date":"2025-07-31","source":"https://www.pcpd.org.hk/english/news_events/media_statements/press_20250731.html"}]}