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Gatik Raises $25 Million in Series A Funding
To date, Gatik has completed over 30,000 revenue-generating autonomous orders for multiple Fortune 500 customers in the U.S. and Canada.
To date, Gatik has completed over 30,000 revenue-generating autonomous orders for multiple Fortune 500 customers in the U.S. and Canada.
Beginning in January, Gatik will provide Loblaw with a reliable, contactless delivery solution for transporting multi-temperature goods from its automated picking facility to retail locations across the Greater Toronto Area.
The partners will introduce their first service available to the public in Arlington, Texas, in partnership with the City of Arlington and University of Texas at Arlington.
Daimler Trucks zeros in on driver safety and freight efficiency as its main autonomous technology goals.
This approval enables the automated driving system to drive the vehicle instead of the driver under certain conditions, such as when the vehicle is in congested traffic on expressway.
It is the first publicly-funded autonomous electric shuttle transportation pilot and test of driverless technology in Virginia.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration wants to learn more about how the trucking industry might integrate trucks with autonomous technology into fleets.
Hint: It wasn’t Tesla’s Autopilot.
With first-year sales of 100,000 expected, Ford will make the technology standard or as an option on certain 2021 model year F-150 pickups and Mustang Mach-E all-electric SUVs.
Daimler announced a strategic partnership with Luminar Technologies, a provider of automotive lidar hardware and software technology, to address a key enabling technology for autonomous truck operation, or what Daimler calls "highly automated" trucks.
The pilot program will test multi-passenger, electric automated vehicle platforms to provide visitors a safe, innovative and eco-friendly transportation alternative while exploring Yellowstone.
Locomation recently tested its automated platooning technology in a project with government and turnpike officials to make a delivery run from Pennsylvania to Michigan.
An autonomous-truck partnership between Waymo and Daimler will produce a unique version of the Freightliner Cascadia fitted with integrated redundancy for all safety systems, rather than bolt-on components. It will be driven by Waymo's advanced AI driving system, The Waymo Driver.
Ford and Argo AI‘s fourth-generation self-driving test vehicle, built on the Escape Hybrid platform, is “launch intent” in terms of the components to support commercialization.
Before the industry began eyeing the possibility of driverless semis, there was a little car secretly driving around the country with no one at the wheel. This has now evolved into a new project, Waymo Via, which is looking to make autonomous trucking and local delivery a reality.
As companies around the globe move to cash in on the rapidly emerging last-mile delivery segment, autonomous methods of delivery, from self-driving vans to drones to mall delivery robots, are being developed to help get everything from pizzas to parcels into the hands of customers.
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