Volkswagen Autostadt Car TowerJune 13th, 2008
Volkswagen’s Autotürme, or car towers in Wolfsburg, northern Germany.
The car towers work like giant vending machines: As a new car arrives from the factory, it’s transported by robot to an empty storage slot in one of the towers; when a customer shows up to collect the car, the same robotic picking system fetches the vehicle, brings it down to ground level, and transfers it to the KundenCenter in the next building. Each tower holds up to 400 cars on 20 levels and can process a car every 45 seconds during peak times.
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