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Walmart Stomps the Pedal on Self-Driving Delivery
The giant retailer has thrown its weight behind five startups and just let the Gatik robots take the wheel in Arkansas.
A Gatik self-driving delivery truck in Bentonville, Ark.
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At the moment, the future of transportation is at the Walmart on Regional Airport Boulevard in Bentonville, Ark.
Hard by The Buttered Biscuit and the Cornerstone Baptist Church, a pair of delivery trucks have begun pulling up there 12 times a day full of online orders sourced from a warehouse seven miles away. They carry everything from apparel to avocados but what’s most impressive is what they lack: a human driver.