"Many Photos" - Travellers at Gatwick airport will have their cars parked by ROBOTS

Passengers heading to Gatwick airport and leaving their car there will soon have it whisked away by a robot valet.

The fleet of droids will put cars closer to one another than is possible with human drivers and therefore be able to fit a third more cars in the same area.

A trial is starting in August which will see customers leave their car in a drop-off zone before summoning a robot through a designated app. 

Military grade GPS will guide the machine to the car where forklift-like equipment  will approach the car from the front, slide under the car's body and move it to a specific spot. 

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Passengers heading to Gatwick airport and leaving their car there will soon have it whisked away by a robot valet. The fleet of droids will put cars closer to one another than possible with human drivers and fit a third more cars in the same parking lot

A three-month trial will see the robots, named Stan, take to Gatwick's car parks. 

Gatwick's trial will take place in part of the South Terminal's long-stay car park.

Existing infrastructure such as parking space markings and lampposts will be replaced with a smooth surface for the robots and room for 100 more vehicles.

A car's shape and size is scanned by the equipment to ensure they are safely steered to where they need to go. 

Each journey is logged and corresponds to the passenger's flight number. 

The scheme was revealed planning in an application to Crawley council. 

Gatwick's trial will take place in part of the South Terminal's long-stay car park. Existing infrastructure such as parking space markings and lampposts will be replaced with a smooth surface for the robots and space for 270 cars opposed to 170

Vehicle's shape and size is scanned by the equipment to ensure they are safely steered to where they need to go. Each journey is logged and corresponds to the passenger's flight number

Technology in the system has been developed by French firm Stanley Robotics and will help combat the summer rush. 

According to the Evening Standard, Stéphane Evanno, Stanley Robotics' co-founder, said: 'We call it a valet parking robot because people just need to drop off their car at the entrance of the car park and then they can basically leave and catch a flight, but it's doing more than just valet parking.' 

Trials of the same technology have previously been going on at Paris, Lyon and Düsseldorf. 

A five-month trial at Charles de Gaulle airport last year was a tremendous success, customers were oblivious that a robot was even involved in the process.  

WILL YOUR JOB BE TAKEN BY A ROBOT?

A report in November 2017 suggested that physical jobs in predictable environments, including machine-operators and fast-food workers, are the most likely to be replaced by robots.

Management consultancy firm McKinsey, based in New York, focused on the amount of jobs that would be lost to automation, and what professions were most at risk.

The report said collecting and processing data are two other categories of activities that increasingly can be done better and faster with machines. 

This could displace large amounts of labour - for instance, in mortgages, paralegal work, accounting, and back-office transaction processing.

Conversely, jobs in unpredictable environments are least are risk.

The report added: 'Occupations such as gardeners, plumbers, or providers of child- and eldercare - will also generally see less automation by 2030, because they are technically difficult to automate and often command relatively lower wages, which makes automation a less attractive business proposition.'

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