A new partnership between a robotics company and a ground service delivery organization will soon have robot trucks Texas highways to transport goods to restaurants. The autonomous, or self-driving, semi-trucks from Kodiak Robotics will be used to deliver the restaurant shipments between Texas and Oklahoma, according to a February 29 news release.
Kodiak announced the partnership with ground delivery company MartinBrower Company, which works with national restaurant clients like McDonalds and Chipotle, according to the company website. The Kodiak self-driving trucks will deliver “time-critical refrigerated freight” between Dallas, Texas and Oklahoma City eight times per week.
“Autonomous trucks are well-suited to the difficult work of long-haul driving, while allowing our partners’ local drivers to handle last-mile deliveries and provide a personal touch for customers,” said Don Burnette, founder and CEO of Kodiak, in the news release.
The self-driving semi-trucks use cameras called Sensor Pods and radar to travel on I-35 to Oklahoma City, a route that MartinBrower calls “shuttle lanes.” MartinBrower already uses these shuttle lanes, which is when a long-haul driver shifts shipments to the local driver, according to the Dallas Morning News. The Kodiak trucks will hand off the shipments to a human driver when it reaches Oklahoma City.
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