Chinese robot parks your car for you
Geta load of this, Chinese robot parks your car for you
July 5, 2016
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - The dreaded act of parallel
parking could soon become a thing of the past with Chinese inventors backing
their new parking robot to take away the stress for anxious drivers.
The laser-guided "Geta" (get a car) robot
slides under your vehicle, picks it up, finds a parking space in the lot and
places the car in the tightest of spots.
The soon to be launched robot needs just two minutes to
park a vehicle, does not need tracks, has 360 degrees mobility and will utilize
space better than humans, said creators Yee Fung Automation Technology, based
in the south China city of Shenzhen.
"The parking robot is designed to increase parking
space," Yee Fung’s 33-year-old chief executive and brainchild of Geta,
Marco Wu, told Reuters.
"The robot can go everywhere ... and will reform
parking in the future."
Mainland China is expected to have more than 200 million
cars by 2020, the government say, meaning that finding space to park could
become increasingly difficult.
Wu said Geta finds spaces by transmitting signals to a
computer containing a map which then directs the robot to an available spot.
The purple and lime green robot will cost more than 1
million yuan ($150,000) and Wu said there had been lots of interest from cities
where space is at a premium.
"There are many companies interested in our
products, such as commercial property companies in Singapore and London, public
parking companies in the Middle East, and developers, governments, as well as
public parking companies in China," he said.
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Editing by Patrick Johnston)
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