Canada in robot trucking vanguard, with one driverless semi already here
- Canada is advancing in autonomous trucking, with Gatik Inc. Operating a driverless box truck to deliver groceries between Toronto and Brampton.
- Gatik Inc. Claims to have laid deep roots in Canada, operating since 2020, while NuPort Robotics is testing trucks in collaboration with Canadian Tire for a distribution center project north of Toronto.
- Waabi Innovation Inc. Is competing to deploy the first driverless long-haul truck in Texas, receiving support from partners like Uber and Nvidia.
- The industry faces safety and regulatory challenges, though most autonomous trucks have avoided serious crashes according to Advocates for Highway Safety.
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Canada in robot trucking vanguard, with one driverless semi already here
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Canada in robot trucking vanguard, with one driverless semi already here – 105.9 The Region
MONTREAL — If it’s daytime, odds are a lone box truck is cruising the streets between Toronto and Brampton, Ont., with no one behind the wheel. Bristling with more than two dozen cameras, radars and “lidar” — a laser-based measurement of distance — the vehicle ferries groceries daily from an automated Loblaw Cos. Ltd. warehouse at a supermarket in Etobicoke to its headquarters 25 kilometres west of the city. Sporting a purple logo, the truck is …
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