Source: THE PRODUCE NEWS, 12/23/20


Last year Walmart began an autonomous vehicle pilot with Gatik to move customer orders on a two-mile route between a dark store (a store that stocks items for fulfillment but isn’t open to the public) and a Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, AR. Since then, it has safely driven more than 70,000 operational miles in autonomous mode with a safety driver. Now, the company is taking the next step forward: Gatik’s multi-temperature Autonomous Box Trucks will operate this route driverless in the state of Arkansas.

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