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Gatik joins NVIDIA Halos Lab to scale safe driverless freight across North America
Gatik, a leader in autonomous trucking, has joined the NVIDIA
Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab – the first ANSI National Accreditation Board accredited inspection program for AI driven physical systems.
Gatik Driver, the company’ s third-generation autonomous system, combines state-of-the-art AI architecture with reasoning and automotive-grade hardware designed for high-frequency commercial logistics.
This collaboration underscores a shared commitment to advancing safe scalable driverless freight operations across North America.
Gatik already operates fully driverless trucks on public roads across Texas, Arkansas, Arizona and Ontario, Canada, delivering daily freight for major retailers and consumer goods companies.
Since launching driverless service in 2025 the company has scaled round the clock operations backed by about US $ 600m in contracted revenue and plans for hundreds of trucks by 2026.
NVIDIA Halos provides a full stack safety framework that integrates hardware, software, AI models, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance into one verification environment. The inspection lab enables rigorous testing and validation methods to improve reliability across autonomous platforms
Gatik’ s Driver system combines advanced AI reasoning with automotive grade hardware for high frequency logistics use cases. The company also works with regulators and partners including Isuzu Motors to develop production ready autonomous trucks.
Together the companies aim to strengthen safety standards, accelerate deployment and expand driverless freight networks at scale across the region.
This initiative positions Gatik as a real world benchmark for autonomous trucking and provides NVIDIA with operational insights to refine its safety architecture.
RoboForce raises $ 52m to scale physical AI robotics for industrial labor shortage
RoboForce has raised $ 52 million in an oversubscribed funding round, bringing total capital raised to $ 67 million.
The round was led by YZi Labs, a $ 10 billion fund, with participation from Jerry Yang, co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc., alongside existing investors Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel, Carnegie Mellon University and others.
The new funding will accelerate development of RoboForce’ s nextgeneration Physical AI foundation model – expand its fleet of generalpurpose robots and scale manufacturing for commercial deployment. to staff. This shortage slows timelines and increases operational risk.
RoboForce is addressing this challenge with Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor designed for environments such as solar farms, data centers, mining operations, shipping, manufacturing and logistics.“ Robo-Labor is essential for work that is dull, dirty and dangerous,” said Leo Ma, Founder and CEO, RoboForce.
“ Our mission is to elevate humans into safer, higher value roles while robots take on demanding industrial tasks.”
The company’ s strategy focuses on three pillars: advancing its AI data flywheel through real-world and simulated data, scaling manufacturing and strengthening supply chains and driving commercialization through production deployments.
RoboForce is collaborating with NVIDIA to power its robotics platform using advanced computing, simulation and orchestration technologies, enabling scalable and reliable automation across complex industrial environments.
The company is transitioning from research and development into full-scale market execution.
Industrial sectors face a widening labor gap as physically demanding, repetitive and safety-critical work becomes harder
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