This article
caught my eye about a Robotic Parking Garage. The article mentions
that Robotic Parking Systems Inc.
will be opening a new robotic garage in Boston later this year like the
one already operating in Hoboken, NJ. It’s kind of cool in that it can
fit twice or more the number of cars into the same space. Customers
drive their car onto a pallet and exit and the robotic system files
their car away in its huge filing system. Later, the customers come
back and their car is presented within a few short minutes. The Garage
even utilizes AI and tries to learn customer trends. The garage
shuffles the cars around during the day to try to return the cars as
quickly and efficiently as possible. The whole system runs on an
off-the-shelf PC running GE’s simplicity software. On their website you
can see a CNN video clip of the Robotic Parking Garage in action. It’s
not without its mishaps, though. NYT
reported on how a Jeep Wrangler and a Cadillac DeVille fell off their
pallets to their destruction.