Walmart Zooms to Texas With Fifth Autonomous Grocery Delivery Pilot

The retailer is teaming up with Houston-based Nuro

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Walmart has launches its fifth autonomous grocery delivery pilot program, this time with the electric robo-van maker Nuro in the robotics company’s hometown of Houston.

Resembling a cross between a Fiat 500 and the discontinued Toyota Prius C, Nuro’s prototype is a custom, low-speed, zero-emission, self-driving vehicle that’s engineered for short neighborhood trips and for the exclusive purpose of transporting goods. The compact vehicles sport gull wing-style doors reminiscent of an ’80s movie star: the DeLorean.

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