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" Grocery deliveries and medical supplies are the two
areas driving adoption of autonomous delivery. "
Anand Gopalan, Velodyne Lidar

Refraction AI has a fleet of 25 three-wheeled bots making last-mile deliveries along the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich.

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distribution routes is that they require little decision-making by drivers and their return on investment can be easily calculated. Yet, Gopalan
noted, " Those vehicles are large and are often
moving fast on high-speed roads versus lastmile vehicles. " Still, Velodyne expects to see
commercial rollout within two years of its lidars
in van-sized, driverless AVs that can " move
goods from one microhub to another microhub. "
Walmart has been active in all of these sectors,
including experiments with AV-tech providers ranging from Waymo to Nuro. Since 2018, for instance,
Walmart has been testing multitemperature
autonomous box trucks provided by startup Gatik,
based in Palo Alto, Calif., for movement of goods
on a 2-mile route between a store-type fulfillment
center and a small-format Walmart Neighborhood
Market in Bentonville, Ark., where Walmart is headquartered. Now they're adding a 20-mile test route
between New Orleans and Metairie, La.
For long-haul, " ramp to ramp " routes, San
Francisco-based Ouster, for example, just
announced a deal with Plus, a developer of automated-truck technology in Cupertino, Calif., to
provide lidar sensors for a 1,000-vehicle fleet of
18-wheelers. n
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Grocery deliveries are a growing application for automated vehicles. Kroger and
Nuro launched a delivery service in Houston in 2019.



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