{"id":130252,"date":"2021-11-08T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/robotruck-startup-gatik-making-delivery-runs-for-walmart-without-humans-at-the-wheel"},"modified":"2021-11-08T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:45:56","slug":"robotruck-startup-gatik-making-delivery-runs-for-walmart-without-humans-at-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/robotruck-startup-gatik-making-delivery-runs-for-walmart-without-humans-at-the-wheel","title":{"rendered":"Robotruck Startup Gatik Making Delivery Runs For Walmart Without Humans At The Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robotruck-startup-gatik-making-delivery-runs-for-walmart-without-humans-at-the-wheel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gatik, a Silicon Valley-based developer of robotic technology to handle \u201cmiddle-mile\u201d deliveries from distribution centers to stores, has begun hauling goods for Walmart in autonomous trucks without a human backup at the wheel for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Gatik, which has been making delivery runs for Walmart since 2019 in the retail giant\u2019s Bentonville, Arkansas, hometown, is operating two fully autonomous trucks that are hauling goods on a fixed, 7.1-mile route between an e-commerce distribution facility there to a Walmart Neighborhood Market store. This new phase started in August and is the first time any autonomous trucking company has operated commercial delivery routes without a human backup, the companies said.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gatik, a Silicon Valley-based developer of robotic technology to handle \u201cmiddle-mile\u201d deliveries from distribution centers to stores, has begun hauling goods for Walmart in autonomous trucks without a human backup at the wheel for the first time. Gatik, which has been making delivery runs for Walmart since 2019 in the retail giant\u2019s Bentonville, Arkansas, hometown, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}