»In which we valet-park, with robots

From JapanProbe: "Customers who come to the station by bicycle need only place their bike on a small platform and hit a few buttons, and the system will automatically store their bike in an underground parking garage that can accommodate 9,400 bikes. When the reporter asks the machine to retrieve his bicycle, it only takes 23 seconds to accomplish the task. The parking system costs 100 yen for a single use, or 1,800 yen for a monthly pass."

More video at the JapanProbe site.
San Francisco's own master bicycle valet parker kash runs the Warm Planet bicycle shop at the Caltrain station in San Francisco [PDF].

salim filed this under bicycle and media friendsy at 13h17 Monday, 21 April 2008 (link) (Yr two bits?)