The robotics pioneer who is transforming the parking industry.
It would be more than 85 years of development before Monteverdi, a former engineer at Krupp Industrietechnik in Germany, would develop the proprietary system and software needed for the creation of a fully robotic parking structure.
Coining the term “robotic parking” to distinguish his system from the existing mechanical parking systems in use, Monteverdi and fellow German engineer Heiner Schween brought cutting edge robotics and architecture to develop the systems that would allow robots to reliably and efficiently park automobiles, making fully automated parking structures possible. In 1994, Robotic Parking Systems, Inc. was formed; shortly after, the company filed the patents on its new technology.
When is Robotic Parking not Robotic Parking?
In the 1990s automated parking was still largely just a discussion about possibilities. While there were some old “mechanical garages” in New York and New Jersey, to most people in the parking industry, a robotic garage was one where the entry and exit gates went up and down automatically. The concept of a software system running a garage was still futuristic. This was the environment in 1994, when Royce Monteverdi coined the term “robotic parking”… more
