Walmart picks up Argo AI for retailer's first autonomous delivery service

Walmart Inc., the world's largest retailer, is looking to start delivering goods autonomously to customers, and it's partnering with Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle (AV) company Argo AI and the Ford Motor Co. to do so. When it launches as a pilot program in Austin, Texas, Miami and Washington, D.C. later this year, the new service will be the first in the nation that spans multiple cities, Argo AI said. The service will use modified Ford Escape vehicles equipped with Argo's self-driving software…