[Courtesy of Stanley Robotics]
SEOUL -- LGU+, a mobile carrier involved in the establishment of 5G networks nationwide, partnered with Hyundai Movex, an automated logistics company, and others to develop a 5G-based autonomous valet parking robot that would prevent accidents and ease congestion in crowded parking areas such large shopping malls.
LGU+ said in a statement on Tuesday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Movex, Bucheon City, a satellite city of Seoul, Maro Robot Tech, a logistics robot company, and Bucheon Industry Promotion Foundation, an industry promotion foundation operated by the Bucheon city government, to develop and commercialize a valet parking robot platform embedded with 5G technology.
LGU+ will establish and provide 5G infrastructure to connect robots using its low-latency network. Hyundai Movex and Maro Robot Tech will develop robots which will autonomously navigate around parking lots to move cars. The valet robot system will be upgraded to a cloud network-based autonomous robot platform that would navigate using 3D maps.
LGU+ and its partners plan to finish the development and testing of valet robots in 2020 and deploy them in parking lots in Bucheon's industrial complexes and public facilities.
According to a 2017 survey conducted by Reports and Data, a global market research company, more than half of people going to airports in the Netherlands preferred to have their cars carried by valet robots. Stanley Robotics, a French robot maker, operates valet robots in airports.
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Park Sae-jin
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