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Gatik x Walmart

Gatik and Walmart documented a middle-mile autonomous trucking program using box trucks on fixed routes between Walmart facilities. Walmart reported that the Arkansas pilot progressed to fully driverless operations, while Gatik describes the program as autonomous delivery for customer orders between distribution and retail locations (Gatik and Walmart).

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Type
deployment
Status
Activeoperating
Announced
2021-01-01
5.8 years ago
Active for
5.8 years

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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  • Walmart · customer

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Sources (3)

  1. https://gatik.ai/walmart/
  2. https://gatik.ai/news/press-releases/gatik-launches-from-stealth-and-commences-operations-with-walmart/
  3. https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2020/12/15/walmart-and-gatik-go-driverless-in-arkansas-and-expand-self-driving-car-pilot-to-a-second-location

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