Gatik

Gatik was established in 2017 by Gautam Narang,^[7] Arjun Narang,^[8] and Apeksha Kumavat.^[9] Around this time, Texas passed a law allowing autonomous vehicles to drive on its roads and highways.^[3] The company operated in stealth mode for the first two years to develop its technology.^[10][7]

Gatik approached Arkansas House representative Austin McCollum in 2019 to introduce legislation allowing for an autonomous vehicle pilot program. The bill was signed into law by Asa Hutchinson.^[11] Gatik and Walmart consequently launched a partnership in 2019, beginning pilot program operations consisting of a 1.8-mile route between a fulfillment center and the retailer's Bentonville, Arkansas location.^{[7][11][12][13]} Initially, a “driver” rode in the driver’s seat of the self-driving trucks; by 2021, the vehicles went driverless, with the safety driver moving to the passenger seat. Safety drivers can still manually stop the vehicle if the autonomous driving system disengages.^[11] By November 2021, Gatik was operating 21 vehicles.^[14][15]

In January 2020, Gatik deployed Canada's first autonomous delivery fleet with supermarket chain Loblaw in Ontario, Canada.^[16]

The company began making grocery deliveries for PC Express in Brampton, Ontario on a 13-mile route as of October 5, 2022.^[17][18] The deliveries were made using autonomous trucks with no safety driver behind the steering wheel.^[19] Gatik is now used by Kroger and Tyson Foods for this purpose.^[20][21][22]

Gatik focuses on medium-distance deliveries, commonly referred to as the "middle mile", using Level 4 autonomous trucks to transport groceries and other goods between distribution centers, micro-fulfillment centers and retail locations.^[23][24][25] Gatik's Level 4 autonomous trucks operate without a safety driver on repeated routes.^[26][27]

The company began making its first deliveries using Ford Transit vans integrated with Gatik's autonomous technology.^[28] Gatik introduced an electric version of its Ford Transit delivery truck in February 2021, which was developed together with electric vehicle manufacturer VIA Motors.^[29][30]

In April 2021, Gatik partnered with Isuzu to develop an autonomous medium-duty truck.^[31] Gatik integrated its autonomous trucking technology into the Isuzu N-Series truck.^[29]

Starting in 2022, Cummins has also worked with Gatik to integrate the company's autonomous vehicle technology into Cummins' powertrain software, enabling the use of drive by wire in autonomous vehicles.^[32] The companies installed the technology into Isuzu FTR box trucks.^[32]

In 2024, Gatik's trucks started to use data-collecting tires from Goodyear.^[33]

In July 2025, technology from NVIDIA was integrated into Gatik's next-generation simulation platform, enabling higher-fidelity environment simulations for autonomous truck validation and development at lower cost.^[34]