Kodiak AI and Bosch announced an agreement on Monday to collaborate on and scale manufacturing of a production-grade, redundant autonomous platform.
"Advancing the deployment of driverless trucks and physical AI not only requires robust autonomous technology, but also manufacturing experience and a robust supply chain in order to achieve true scale," says Don Burnette, founder and CEO of Kodiak. "We believe collaborating with Bosch will allow us to scale autonomous driving hardware with the modularity, serviceability and system-level integration needed for commercial success for both upfit and factory-line integration."
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The Kodiak Driver combines advanced, AI-driven software with modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware into a single platform. Bosch will support the development of a redundant autonomous platform that combines the integrated interfaces and will supply Kodiak with hardware, including sensors and vehicle actuation components.
"By supplying production-grade hardware, we are enabling the next generation of autonomous trucking alongside Kodiak," says Paul Thomas, president of Bosch North America and Bosch Mobility Americas. "Kodiak has already deployed trucks with no humans on board in commercial operation and this cooperation gives us a valuable opportunity to deepen our understanding of real-world autonomous vehicle requirements and to further enhance our offerings for the broader autonomous mobility ecosystem."
