# Kodiak Driver, brain

Kodiak's SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system for Class 8 trucks: sensing (LiDAR, radar, cameras in field-swappable SensorPods), redundant compute, and redundant steering/braking, running customer-owned trucks driverlessly. Compute on NVIDIA DRIVE; hardware scaled with Bosch.

- **Slug:** kodiak-driver
- **Type:** Foundation model
- **Maturity (DEPLOY ladder):** Commercial
- **Open source:** no

## Developed by (1)

- [Kodiak AI](/companies/kodiak.md)


## Powers (1)

- [Kodiak RoboTruck](/models/kodiak-robotruck.md) (Kodiak AI)


## Sources (4)

1. **The Kodiak Driver: L4 autonomy (LiDAR/radar/cameras, field-swappable SensorPods, redundant compute/steering/braking) (official)** · https://kodiak.ai/technology
2. **Kodiak Driver adopts NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion / Thor compute (Mar 16, 2026)** · https://kodiak.ai/news/kodiak-ai-scales-autonomous-driving-with-nvidia
3. **Bosch and Kodiak advance toward scaled production of autonomous-truck hardware** · https://www.truckinginfo.com/news/bosch-kodiak-ai-advance-toward-scaled-production-of-autonomous-truck-hardware
4. **Kodiak Driver compute on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform (Mar 16, 2026)** · https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/03/16/kodiak-ai-scales-autonomous-driving-with-nvidia-drive-hyperion-platform/99742/


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