Stan (robot valet)

2019: Use at the airports

In January, 2019 it became known of use of robots valets at the airports. They already found application in air harbors of Paris, Lyon and Düsseldorf, and since August, 2019 they will be for the first time tested in Britain.

The cofounder Stanley Robotics company which is engaged in production of such robots valets Stéphane Evanno told that during five-months testing at the airport Charles de Gaulle in 2018 responses of passengers were "exclusively good", and a system worked so uninterruptedly that some clients did not even suspect that their machines were moved by the robot.

Stan robot valet

The second in load airport of Britain — Gatwick Airport — will test the robots who received the name Stan within three months to increase parking capacity.

For an experiment the part of the existing land parking which is provided for the independent parking will be selected. Its capacity reaches 2350 cars. During tests of 270 places it will be selected for the parking by robots. This territory will be specially fenced from the rest of parking. 8 boxes of 4.6 x 8.7 x 3.2 m in size will be installed on East side of the selected section. Each of them will have two secure sign-ins with controlled access: on the one hand for the driver, with another for the robot. From arrival the panel using which the owner to enter the data will be located.

When the car stops by in the box, the robot registers parts of a route of the owner that the vehicle was ready when the driver returns. After that the valet drives up to the car, slides under it, carefully lifts for wheels and moves on the parking.

If tests take place successfully, the airport will provide service of the robot valet on two other parking zones. The company management hopes that thanks to an innovation on the current 6000 parking spaces it will be possible to find room for up to 8500 cars.^[1]

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