AGV robot parking lot to be ready in October 来自深圳的黑科技 一起玩转停车机器人！
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Narrator: A Ding
An automated guided vehicle (AGV) robot developed by a Shenzhen technology company will be in use in a parking lot that will open in Nanjing, capital of eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, at the end of October.
The parking lot will be China’s first to feature AGV developed by Futian District-based Yeefung Automation Technology Co.
Yeefung said July 17 that the laser-guided AGV robot can transfer a car into a carport in about two minutes. Drivers guide their cars on to the robot, which is in the shape of a movable platform and it places the vehicle in an available port.
Wu Hao, Yeefung Automation’s general manager, said the company developed the robot in response to limited parking space in big cities across the world. He said the robot can help new and experienced drivers alike.
AGV robots can maximize parking space in lots by around 20 to 40 percent.
Although adding such a robot would give an extra cost of 70,000 yuan (US$10,468) to each carport, it would help parking-lot operators earn profit through improving efficiency, said Wu.
China has about 172 million vehicles on its roads. Based on an annual increase of 19 million units, there will be 250 million vehicles on China’s roads in 2020.
Pan Guofan, a deputy director at the Guangzhou Parking Association, said smart parking technology will help improve efficiency but not provide a complete solution to the lack of parking space in cities.
He said parking space should be a major consideration of urban planning and local authorities should build more multi-story parking lots in urban areas.
(WeChat editor: Vince Xie)
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