Parking Robots Can Fit Up to 50% More Cars. How Do They Work?
Imagine a parking garage that can hold 1,000 cars. Now imagine fitting as many as: 1,500 cars inside roughly the same parking area. No new underground floor. No larger building. No extra land. Instead, robots move the cars. It sounds like a small convenience. But parking robots may actually be solving a much more expensive problem. Space. And in the world's expensive cities, space can be worth a lot of money. Why Does Parking Waste So Much Space? Think about how you normally park a car. You drive into a garage. You need enough room to turn. You need a driving lane. You need enough space between cars to open the doors. Then you need space to walk out. The parking garage isn't designed only for cars. It is designed for humans driving cars. Now remove the human. A driver leaves the car at a transfer area. A robot moves underneath it. The robot lifts the car by its tires. Then it carries the entire vehicle to an empty space. Nobody needs to open the door...