Kodiak AI

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.

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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.

05/14/2026

Before lumber reaches a job site, it starts on a logging road.

Those roads are typically remote, uneven, weather-exposed, and difficult to find truckers to drive on them. They’re also critical to keeping timber moving from forest sites to processing facilities.

Kodiak will conduct pilot operations with West Fraser in Alberta, Canada later this year, using Kodiak Driver-equipped trucks to haul timber from forest sites to one of West Fraser’s processing facilities.

This marks Kodiak’s first international expansion, first forestry pilot, and first operations with flatbed trailers.

West Fraser, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wood building materials, aims to use the pilot to explore how autonomous trucking can help improve safety, address driver shortages, and support the movement of raw materials to mills.

For Kodiak, the work expands the Kodiak Driver into another demanding industrial environment, from the Permian Basin in West Texas to the forests of Western Canada.

One AI-powered autonomous driving system. More driving jobs where autonomy can make a difference.

05/12/2026

Kodiak’s driverless operations are scaling where it counts: vehicles deployed, hours driven, and freight delivered.

In Q1, Kodiak expanded its driverless deployment to 28 customer-owned driverless vehicles, a 40% increase quarter-over-quarter.

Those vehicles have driven more than 23,500 paid driverless hours, up 120% from the end of Q4. Q1 alone exceeded all paid driverless hours driven in 2025.

Cumulative loads delivered grew to more than 15,600, up approximately 24%, including more than 200,000 tons of freight delivered in Q1 alone.

These point to the same thing: increasing scale and productivity across Kodiak’s driverless deployment.

05/08/2026

ACT Expo 2026 is in the books.

Good conversations. Strong momentum across the industry. And a packed week alongside our partners at Bosch and Roush.

At the Bosch booth, attendees got a look at a next-generation Kodiak SensorPod prototype featuring Bosch hardware as we continue executing toward a production-grade autonomous platform. Kodiak CEO, Don Burnette, also joined Bosch for a fireside conversation on the future of autonomous trucking and Physical AI.

At the Roush + Kodiak booth, attendees got up close with the Kodiak Driver and learned more about how Kodiak and Roush are working together to scale deployment of autonomous trucking hardware.

On stage, Frank Fratrik joined industry leaders to talk through what it actually takes to integrate automated vehicles into fleet operations safely and responsibly. Don also took the ACT Expo main stage to discuss how the virtual driver is reshaping trucking and logistics.

Most importantly, it was great to spend the week with customers, partners, fleets, builders, operators, policymakers, and the broader trucking ecosystem all focused on where the industry goes next.

Thanks to everyone who connected at what’s always one of the best venues for checking out breakthrough technology.

05/07/2026

Three new relationships. Three different applications. One Kodiak Driver.

In Q1, Kodiak expanded its work across defense, long-haul, and industrial operations through new relationships with General Dynamics Land Systems, Roehl Transport, and West Fraser.

With GDLS, we’re collaborating on autonomous military ground vehicles, extending Kodiak’s reach into the core of the defense ecosystem. Our defense approach now runs on two tracks: working with industry leaders like GDLS and contracting directly with the Pentagon through programs like the Marines’ ROGUE Fires program.

With Roehl Transport, we launched long-haul freight service with 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. Roehl chose Kodiak because of our shared commitment to safety.

With West Fraser, we announced planned pilot operations in Canada to demonstrate the Kodiak Driver in logging operations, marking our first forestry pilot, first international expansion, and first operations with flatbed trailers.

Different customers. Different environments. Different driving jobs.

One AI-powered autonomous driving system built to support them all.

05/06/2026

Dense terrain. Denied signals. Tactical logistics under pressure.

During Project G.I. at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division put the Kodiak Driver through tactical scenarios designed to test autonomy where it matters: demanding terrain, constrained communications environments, and contested logistics.

The Kodiak Driver navigated unstructured environments, gave soldiers real-time visibility through vehicle sensor feeds, and integrated with mission-management tools to show what an AI-powered logistics chain can look like at the tactical edge.

Autonomy isn’t just about moving without a driver.

It’s about moving when the mission can’t wait.

Read the full story: https://kodiak.ai/news/physical-ai-tactical-edge