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Stolmen bike rack. McDonald's Cycle Center. Seagate FreeAgent 1TB External Hard Drive USB2.0 - Retail. Popular Products HP 250 G1 Laptop £250.23 save £16.91£300.28 save £20.29 View Product Windows 7 Professional w/SP1 64 Bit- Low Cost Packaging. Robot parking garage to open in New York. By Peter Svensson, The Associated Press NEW YORK — Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown. The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches.

Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24, accomplished by removing a ramp and maneuver space normally required. A humanoid robot valet won't be stepping into your car to drive it. Rather, the garage itself does the parking. There is no human supervision, but an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and explain the system to baffled humans. The company's current generation of garages is much improved, Clarke added. Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Onlin.