Kodiak AI

06/17/2026

06/09/2026

Great week at .

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Lambda booth, spent the evening with us at AI After Dark alongside NVIDIA and Lambda, and shared ideas, questions, and perspectives.

From foundation models to world models to end-to-end driving, Physical AI is reshaping how autonomy gets built.

Interested in helping deploy Physical AI in the real world? Reach out at [email protected].

06/04/2026

The age of Physical AI isn’t coming. It’s already here.

That made last week’s Signal. conversation especially timely.

Shubham Shrivastava, Kodiak’s Head of AI, sat down with Dr. Marco Pavone, Associate Professor at Stanford University and leader of autonomous vehicle research at NVIDIA, to discuss where AI goes next as intelligent systems move beyond the screen and into the physical world.

The conversation explored everything from reasoning models and autonomy to evaluation, reliability, and the challenges that remain as AI systems take on increasingly complex tasks. What breakthroughs matter most now? What’s still missing? And what will define the next era of Physical AI?

Thanks to Marco for sharing his perspective and to everyone who joined us for a packed evening of thoughtful discussion and great questions.

More Signal. conversations are ahead. Stay tuned.

06/02/2026

The technology gets the headlines. The team makes it possible.

Building technology designed to tackle some of the toughest driving jobs across trucking, industrials, and defense requires an exceptional team. The kind that embraces hard problems, challenges assumptions, and never stops learning.

That commitment has earned Kodiak a place on Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces list of 2026 and recognition in the Logistics & Transportation category.

This recognition belongs to the team that shows up every day to build what’s next.

05/27/2026

The Road to Autonomy spent two days in the Permian Basin with our team and our customer Atlas Energy Solutions. Grayson covered the depots, the Dune Express handoff, the commercial model, and what fully driverless Class 8 operations actually look like on the ground.

View the full field report:
The Road to Autonomy spent two days in the Permian Basin with our team and our customer, Atlas Energy Solutions. Grayson covered the depots, the Dune Express handoff, the commercial model, and what fully driverless Class 8 operations actually look like on the ground.

The Road to Autonomy Field Report: We headed to the Permian Basin to see Atlas Energy owned Kodiak autonomous trucks deployed at scale.

05/26/2026

tgeThe Pentagon is requesting $54.6 billion for autonomous warfare in its 2027 budget, as the Department of War continues to iterate on how autonomy will transform the battlefield.

Kodiak was one of twelve selected from hundreds of applicants to put its technology directly in soldiers' hands during the Defense Innovation Unit's Project G.I. at Schofield Barracks. That selection matters because Project G.I. isn't just a demonstration: it's a high-velocity feedback loop between industry and the Army's 25th Infantry Division, built to find what's actually ready to deploy.

Soldiers experienced an AI-powered logistics chain operating end to end: autonomous navigation across off-road terrain with GPS and RF signals denied, real-time vehicle sensor feeds integrated into situational awareness tools already in the Army's toolkit, and full interoperability with Gallatin AI's Navigator platform to move from load planning to mission ex*****on without a human in the cab.

Worth noting: the system navigated all of it without pre-built HD maps, because we designed it that way from the start.

Read full story from Schofield on our site: https://kodiak.ai/news/physical-ai-tactical-edge

05/21/2026

Some of the same safety principles used to bring astronauts home from space apply to autonomous trucks.

In this blog post, Kelly Smith shares what 13 years at NASA taught him about building safety-critical systems, and how that experience now informs his work at Kodiak.

From probabilistic risk assessment and Monte Carlo simulation to redundancy, fault management, and rare-event estimation, the post looks at the engineering discipline behind the safety case for autonomous trucking.

Read Kelly’s story:
https://kodiak.ai/news/nasa-artemis-safety-lessons-for-autonomous-vehicles

Images sourced from NASA. NASA is acknowledged as the source of this material. Use does not imply NASA endorsement of Kodiak or its products or services.

05/20/2026

Dallas to Atlanta. A route the trucking industry calls a "tweener lane."

Too long for a single driver shift. Not long enough to justify a team. The result: up to 24 hours of lost productivity on every single run.

Board Member James Reed and Kodiak COO Michael Wiesinger explain why tweener lanes are one of the most compelling use cases for autonomous trucks and where the economics become impossible to ignore.

Full Total Cost of Ownership conversation linked in the comments.

https://kodiak.ai/news/autonomous-trucking-total-cost-of-ownership-fleets-carriers

05/20/2026

Roehl and Kodiak both start from the same place: placing a priority on safety.

Kodiak launched long-haul freight service with Roehl Transport, adding a new over-the-road carrier customer as we continue preparing fleets for driverless operations.

Roehl is one of North America’s safest trucking companies, recognized by the American Trucking Associations with the President’s Award, the industry’s highest safety honor. That reputation matters. Fleets preparing for autonomy aren’t just evaluating technology. They’re evaluating whether the company behind it shares their principles.

Roehl chose Kodiak because of our shared commitment to safety.

Roehl and Kodiak both start from the same place: prioritizing safety.on four times a week, giving both teams valuable operating experience on a key Texas freight lane as we build toward driverless long-haul service.