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Gatik x PepsiCo

PepsiCo and Gatik announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy driverless freight across PepsiCo's North America food and beverage supply chain, described as the largest commercial autonomous freight deployment to date. Gatik already operates driverless trucks for PepsiCo across Arkansas, Arizona, and Texas.

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Type
deployment
Status
Activeoperating
Announced
2026-06-08
3 months ago
Active for
3 months

Who’s involved

Gatiktechnology provider

American autonomous middle-mile trucking company (founded 2017 by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, and Apeksha Kumavat). Runs L4 autonomous Class 6/7 box trucks on fixed, repeatable short-haul routes for retail and grocery. Achieved a world-first fully driverless (no safety driver) middle-mile delivery for [Walmart](/companies/walmart) in Bentonville, Arkansas in 2021; driverless-at-scale has been ramping since mid-2025 at still-modest cumulative volume, atop a larger safety-driver-supervised commercial footprint dating to 2019.

HQMountain View, California, USAgatikwe.com6 partnerships

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  • PepsiCo · customer

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Sources (1)

  1. https://www.pepsico.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026/pepsico-and-gatik-announce-multi-year-agreement-to-deploy-autonomous-freight-in-north-america

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