( CNN ) Throwing your keys at the parking valet as you sashay onto a flight may seem like the stuff of James Bond films , but already a robotic valet is taking the sweat out of getting on a plane at Germany 's Dusseldorf airport . Rather than getting behind the wheel , however , this robotic valet physically lifts your three tons of road machinery and slots it into pre-designated robot parking bays . Nicknamed RAY by its creators , the automated forklift truck is the brainchild of Germany 's Serva Transport . Aimed at business travelers in a hurry , the automated parking system can be controlled and booked via an app . All travelers have to do is drop the car off in a designated area , go to a nearby touch screen to confirm the car is empty , and RAY does the rest . RAY uses sensors to measure and photograph the car , it then gently lifts it and takes it to one of 249 parking spots reserved for the robot forklifts . The company claims that its space-saving system -- which uses lasers and sensors to measure not just the height and width of the cars but accessories such as wing mirrors and fenders -- can park 60 % more cars than a human driver . The system is also connected to the airport 's flight data system : RAY will retrieve the car based on flight itineraries . The app also lets car owners communicate with RAY if there are any flight delays . The airport charges €29 a day ( $ 40 ) or €4 ( $ 5.50 ) an hour for the service , which the airport 's management said was likely to appeal to time-strapped corporates . `` Our product is especially appealing to business travelers , who arrive at the airport shortly before the flight , seek efficient parking , and return within a few days , '' Thomas Schnalke , the airport 's managing director , said in a statement . A new tie-up with Volkswagen announced this month aims to increase the efficiency of RAY by getting the car and the parking robot to communicate with each other . `` Our jointly developed technology exchanges data automatically between RAY and Volkswagen cars via Bluetooth and thus facilitates the parking progress , '' said Rupert Kock , the managing director at Serva Transport Systems . But RAY is not the only robot valet on the block . A New Jersey startup called Boomerang also aims to take parking to the next level by using an automated parking system that can park hundreds of cars without human intervention . Shuffling them like the squares in a giant Rubik 's Cube in garages that need no light and little ventilation , the company says the system not only saves on energy but can fit more cars into a smaller space , freeing up valuable land for other real estate . According to Boomerang CEO Mark Patterson the advantage of his system is that it is designed with multiple entry bays , multiple robots and multiple lifts so there is no single point of failure . `` If any one thing goes down , we can still operate the system , '' he told CNN . Drivers put their car into a parking bay that places the car on a large steel tray . Robotic wheeled platforms slide under the vehicle and then transport it to the bays following buried wires in the floor of the carpark . Patterson says its increased throughput means the bays can be filled and emptied more quickly than conventional carparks . `` Our system is installed in a garage with level concrete floors so there 's total fire separation between floors like in a conventional garage - most legacy systems are steel rack structures with no separation between floors , '' he said . `` Developers like it because you can park 100 % more cars in the same space and that 's a big value proposition . '' The other advantage is that the carpark is a 'sterile ' environment that has no need for human intervention . `` The cars are not running in these garages so there 's a big savings on air handling equipment , '' Patterson said . `` You need seven or eight air changes an hour with traditional carparks versus just one or two with this system . '' Similarly , there 's also no need to illuminate the building to the sort of levels that would deter muggers or other attackers that lurk in the gloom of multi-story carparks . `` Robots do n't care if it 's dark , '' Patterson said . Read more from Make , Create , Innovate : . Would you let a robot swim in your bloodstream ? Digital nose on a chip can sniff out cancer . Meet the world 's first 1,000 mph car .
Germany 's Dusseldorf airport has installed a robotic parking system called Jet . It can be controlled via an app and retrieves cars based on flight arrivals data . It can retrieve 60 % more cars than a human operator and costs $ 5.50 an hour .