HL Group Acquires French Robot Parking Company 'Stanley Robotics'

HL Group announced on the 8th that it will acquire the French robotic parking company 'Stanley Robotics.' The plan is to secure a leading position in the global autonomous robotic parking market by acquiring a technologically advanced company in the parking robot sector. The acquisition will be carried out by HL Robotics, a robotics subsidiary established by HL Group last September.

Stanley Robotics is the world’s first company to commercialize parking robots. It first commercialized parking robots at Lyon International Airport in France in 2018, and in September of this year, it signed a parking robot subscription contract with Canadian National Railway, one of the top three railway logistics companies in North America.

Stanley Robotics' outdoor autonomous parking robot Stan
[Photo by HL Group]

The flagship product is an autonomous parking robot called 'Stan.' This robot can perform autonomous parking without spatial or temporal constraints and has enhanced commercialization completeness by utilizing a Fleet Management System (FMS). The FMS, which incorporates digital twin technology, enables not only monitoring of the parking robots but also remote control.

The global autonomous robotic parking market is experiencing double-digit growth annually. Experts predict it will grow to approximately $6.7 billion (about 8.9 trillion KRW) by 2030. HL Group plans to leverage this acquisition to secure a leading position in the global autonomous robotic parking market. A representative from HL Group stated, "In the future, we will focus on expanding our business portfolio by emphasizing robot businesses that come closer to the public beyond just the parking robot business."

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