Autonomous Vehicle News
This week Kroger announced a collaboration with Gatik, a company specializing in autonomous middle-mile logistics, to utilize autonomous box trucks in Dallas, Texas. Starting in the second quarter of 2023, Gatik’s medium-duty autonomous box trucks will be responsible for transporting fresh products from Kroger’s Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC) in Dallas to several retail locations. The two companies believe the collaboration will provide Kroger customers with an expanded range of same-day pick-up times and more flexible order cut-off times. Since commencing commercial operations in 2019, Gatik says it has successfully delivered half a million customer orders using its robo-trucks. The Microsoft deal would be a strategic investment that would result in the autonomous truck company using Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform to develop technology for autonomous delivery vehicles.