Stanley Robotics
About
About Stanley Robotics
Stan is a battery-electric robot that drives beneath a parked vehicle, lifts it by the tyres and carries it to a software-assigned storage position. Because customers do not enter the robot-only storage area, cars can be placed closer together and without driving aisles between every row. The management system remembers each vehicle and schedules retrieval around the customer’s return.
Drivers leave the car in an enclosed handover cabin and keep the key. The robot photographs and stores the vehicle before returning it to a collection cabin later. Stanley operates a commercial service at Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport and launched a robotic-parking programme with London Gatwick in July 2026, extending the system into a second major airport market.
Products
Deployments
- Operating use
2023-03-14 - Lyon-Saint Exupery airport deployed four Stanley Robotics Stan valet robots and 12 cabins for outdoor robotic parking. - airport parking deployment - P5+ car park
Source
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Regal Rexnord
Inbound - actuation and motion control - Thomson supplied eight Electrak HD actuators for Stan: six for wheel grips and two for platform lifting
Source - Trimble Inc.
Inbound - Positioning & Navigation - Stanley Robotics uses Trimble BX992 GNSS positioning to support high-precision autonomous outdoor valet parking robots
Source - Velodyne Lidar
Inbound - Sensing - Velodyne agreed to supply Puck and Velarray M1600 lidar for Stanley Robotics Stan robots
Source
Funding
- 2017-05-23 - Series A - $4.2M - Stanley Robotics raises EUR 3.6M Series A
Stanley Robotics completed a EUR 3.6M Series A financing on 2017-05-23. - source: presse.bpifrance.fr
Timeline
Events
- 2024-11-01 - Acquisition - HL Robotics acquires 74.1 percent stake in Stanley Robotics
HL Robotics acquired a 74.1 percent stake in Stanley Robotics for KRW 32.2 billion. HL Robotics described Stanley Robotics as the world's first outdoor autonomous parking robot company. The acquisition gives HL Robotics control of Stanley's Stan autonomous valet-parking robot business.
Source - 2023-03-14 - Deployment - Stanley Robotics deploys outdoor robotic valet parking at Lyon airport
The P5+ car park deployment used four Stan robots and 12 cabins. The system expanded toward 500 parking spaces at Lyon-Saint Exupery airport. The valet robots pick up vehicles from cabins and park them in the secure parking lot.
Source - 2022-09-27 - Partnership - Velodyne signs multi-year lidar agreement with Stanley Robotics
Stan’s lidar provides real-time 3D data for localization, mapping, object classification and tracking. The parking system was operating at airports and finished-vehicle logistics sites in Europe and Japan; further deployments, including North America, were planned for 2023.
Source - 2017-05-23 - Funding - Stanley Robotics raises EUR 3.6M Series A
Stanley Robotics completed a Series A financing of EUR 3.6M. The financing was announced on 2017-05-23 in EUR. Stanley Robotics develops robotic systems for outdoor vehicle logistics and autonomous valet parking.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- HL Robotics
Acquired Company - HL Robotics acquired a 74.1% stake in Stanley Robotics, adding the STAN outdoor autonomous parking system to its parking-robot portfolio.
Context
Comparable profiles
- HL Robotics
comparable profile - Autonomous Valet Parking Robotics
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- TurfTroniq
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workflow adjacency - Outdoor Mobile Robotics
- Relox Robotics
workflow adjacency - Outdoor Mobile Robotics
- Aurova Robotics
workflow adjacency - Outdoor Mobile Robotics
- Kutting Technology
workflow adjacency - Outdoor Mobile Robotics
Context tags
- Outdoor Mobile Robotics - Workflow
- Vehicle Logistics Robotics - Workflow
- Parking Automation - Customer Environment
- Robotic vehicle storage - Workflow - Stanley robots move and store cars in high-density parking facilities.
- Autonomous parking operations - Capability - Stanley enables fully autonomous parking operations.
- Valet parking robot OEM - Stack Layer - Stanley builds complete valet parking robot systems.
- Autonomous valet parking robotics - Peer Group - Stanley Robotics builds autonomous valet parking robot systems.
- Autonomous Valet Parking - Peer Group
- High-Density Vehicle Storage - Workflow
- Airport Parking - Customer Environment
- Airport parking facilities - Customer Environment - Stanley systems are deployed in airport parking facilities.
- High-density storage automation - Capability - Stanley parking provides high-density vehicle storage.
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Stanley has commercial autonomous parking deployments.