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Gatik Debuts First-Ever Autonomous Box Truck Fleet to Move the Middle Mile

Retailers offered a safe, reliable, contactless solution for transporting multi-temperature goods from distribution centers to retail locations.


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May 06, 2020, 10:30 ET

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PALO ALTO, Calif., May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Gatik, a Palo Alto-based startup deploying autonomous vehicles for business to business (B2B) short-haul logistics, today announced a new platform to serve the supply chain's middle mile: the autonomous box truck. Their self-driving fleet of multi-temperature box trucks ranges in size between 11 and 20 feet long. This makes Gatik the first company to develop autonomous box trucks capable of delivering ambient, cold and frozen goods.

Retailers today face unprecedented challenges in the supply chain, and autonomous delivery vehicles address two of the essentials: safety and reliability. Autonomous delivery vehicles reduce human-to-human transmission channels of COVID-19 and other communicable diseases, and help minimize disruption to the supply chain brought on by the pandemic. With essentials in short supply on shelves across America, Gatik's middle mile solution is versatile, sustainable, and most importantly safe and reliable.

Gatik, a Palo Alto-based startup deploying autonomous vehicles for business to business (B2B) short-haul logistics, today announced a new platform to serve the supply chain’s middle mile: the autonomous box truck.

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"The supply chain is more critical than ever in times of crisis - and crisis also highlights already weak links," said Gautam Narang, CEO and co-founder of Gatik. "Consumers' needs and wants have changed dramatically, but the existing supply chain foundation is inelastic and doesn't support growth or unexpected changes in demand. Gatik enables customers to drastically optimize their hub-and-spoke operations and ensure essential supplies get where they're needed - transporting anything from medical supplies and equipment, to frozen and fresh foods, to everyday items that make us feel safe and secure."

Gatik Manages the Supply-Chain's Troublesome Middle Mile

Vehicles equipped with Gatik's proprietary autonomous driving technology move goods on fixed, repeatable routes between distribution centers and stores. This transport, known as the middle mile, is the most expensive and challenging part of the supply chain for retailers. It's also a hugely underserved segment of the AV market, with most innovation focusing on either moving people, or on sidewalk robots or long-haul trucking.

The company worked closely with its retail customers to design the right form factor to address today's rapidly shifting market and help them automate their on-road logistics. Along with being perfectly built for urban, suburban and highway driving, Gatik's sensor suite offers unparalleled safety.

The key to Gatik's success involves optimizing fixed, predetermined routes, such as those used along the supply chain's middle mile, countless times each day. The biggest threat to the autonomous revolution is the unknown, or "edge cases", which are substantially reduced on fixed journeys, enabling vehicles fitted with Gatik's technology to safely and seamlessly navigate their delivery routes in a range of environments. Gatik's solution for hub-and-spoke operations enhances inventory pooling across multiple locations, allowing for multiple deliveries per day, while fueling elasticity and scalability without adding labour costs.

"The vast majority of Gatik's competitors are focusing on B2C deliveries or passenger transportation and as a result, attempting to build an all-environment AV solution with very generic geofencing," said Santosh Sankar, Partner, Dynamo Ventures. "These models pose complex challenges, require specific technologies, and will take a long time to mature. Whereas others in the AV space are having to accept their timelines for deployment need to be adjusted, Gatik has been quietly and successfully delivering a wide range of goods on behalf of its customers, and generating significant revenue as it does so."

Success with Customers Shows Scalability

Gatik has been successfully operating its autonomous vehicles with multiple retail customers across North America including Walmart since July 2019. This is an industry-first: deployment of a revenue-generating hub-and-spoke AV delivery model, and is proof of commercialization and scalability for Gatik's use case and market.

"The logistics space has been struggling to keep up with today's consumer demand, rising costs and driver shortages. With COVID-19, we know that these struggles are even more pronounced. Gatik's box truck solution offers customers both a service and a philosophy - we're optimizing hub and spoke supply chain operations, dramatically reducing costs and achieving a shared ethical responsibility to enhance public health and improve road and environmental safety. We're not only addressing critical industry pain points but building a logistics community that is safe, reliable and high-functioning," continued Narang. "Our mission is to deliver goods safely and efficiently with AVs. With these new autonomous box trucks, we are not just promising for the future - we're delivering right now."

About Gatik

Gatik was founded in 2017 by veterans of the autonomous technology space and has established offices in Palo Alto and Toronto. The company's mission is to deliver goods safely and efficiently using autonomous vehicles. Gatik focuses on short-haul, business to business (B2B) logistics for the retail industry, enabling its customers to increase the efficiency of their hub-and-spoke supply chain operations, meet consumer demand for real-time goods, increase road safety and reduce congestion, fuel consumption and emissions.

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