CategoryTrucks
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Mountain View, CA-based autonomous trucking company founded in 2018 by Don Burnette (CEO), a former Waymo co-founder. Kodiak develops the Kodiak Driver autonomous driving system for long-haul freight, partnering with carriers like Uber Freight for scaled deployment. The company has raised venture funding including a Series B from Battery Ventures and Bridgestone Americas.
Reality check
SensorPods (company-claimed)
Replace side mirrors and house lidar, cameras and radar; ship pre-calibrated for swap without AV training (Jun 2022).
SensorPod change time (company-claimed)
A demonstration with Southern Tire Mart changed a SensorPod in under ten minutes.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 11 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundPIPE post-money
Key facts
CEO
Total Fundingsee investors →
Atlas facility
Truckport
Dallas Command Center
Data & sources
Patent documents
5
Web sources
2
7 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Kodiak Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Atlas Energy Solutions2× joint
- 2Bosch1× joint
- 3General Dynamics Land Systems1× joint3 total
- 4Tangram Vision1× joint4 total
- 5U.S. Marine Corps1× joint
- 6Werner Enterprises1× joint2 total
Most recent
- with Atlas Energy Solutionsoperating
- with U.S. Marine Corpsoperating
- with General Dynamics Land Systemsjust announced
- Tangram Vision x Kodiak Robotics2026-02-17with Tangram Visionoperating
- Kodiak AI x Bosch2026-01-08with Boschoperating
Kodiak Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map11 verified deployments across 5 regions, newest verified Jun 2026. Explore where Kodiak Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
- operationalKodiak Driverless Truck at Permian Basin, Texas, USA →Southwest · verified Jun 2026
- pilotKodiak Driver at Alberta, Canada →Canada · verified May 2026
- operationalKodiak Driverless Truck at Permian Basin, Texas, USA →Southwest · verified Mar 2026
- pilotKodiak Driverless Truck at United States →United States · verified Jan 2026
- pilotKodiak Driver at San Antonio to San Francisco Bay Area, USA →United States · verified Jan 2026
- operationalKodiak Driverless Truck at Atlas Energy Services, Texas, USA →Southwest · verified Jun 2025
- announcedKodiak Driverless Truck at Mountain View, California, USA →California · verified Jun 2025
- pilotKodiak Driverless Truck at Canada →North America · verified Jan 2025
- pilotKodiak Driverless Truck at Texas–Georgia Corridor, USA →Southwest · verified Sep 2024
- operationalKodiak Driverless Truck at Texas →Southwest · verified Jun 2024
- operationalKodiak Driverless Truck at Texas →Southwest · verified Jan 2024
View the full Kodiak Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by Kodiak Robotics, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.
- Partly trueCapacity · claimed 2026-02-01 · deadline 2026-12-31
“They've done over 3 million km delivering real freight for IKEA and Tyson Foods. By end of 2026 they're going fully driverless on real highways”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
- Partly trueTimeline · claimed 2026-01-01 · deadline 2026-12-31
“The company's aiming for a fully driverless long-haul freight operation by end of 2026”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
- VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-01-01
“They said it wasn't possible, but we did it anyway”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
- VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-01-01
“Kodiak's AI powers a unified virtual driver — built to handle highways, surface streets, and even off-road terrain”
Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.
Disagree with a status? Kodiak Robotics can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Current leadership (1)
- Don Burnette Co-Founder & CEOreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Don Burnettecofounder
previously at Google, Kodiak AI
later founded Otto
Former / Previously (1)
- Collin Otis Founding Engineer, Director of Autonomy and AIsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Kodiak Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (2)
- Kodiak Robotics9 deployments
- Werner Enterprises1 deployment
Recent coverage
Kodiak Robotics in third-party press
Peers
88 peers across 1 segment. Every Kodiak Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
av(88)
57 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4969.122215850638) · leader Waymo at 6990%
- Humble Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Ikedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- KargoBotdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Locomationdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Trunk.Techdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (6)
Registry pages whose text names Kodiak Robotics.
Companies (3)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $225.0M
- Employees
- 360
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
7 total · 6 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Kodiak Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Atlas Energy Solutionsoperating
- with U.S. Marine Corpsoperating
- with General Dynamics Land Systemsjust announced
- Tangram Vision x Kodiak Robotics2026-02-17with Tangram Visionoperating
- Kodiak AI x Bosch2026-01-08with Boschoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Atlas Energy Solutions2× joint
- 2Bosch1× joint
- 3General Dynamics Land Systems1× joint3 total
- 4Tangram Vision1× joint4 total
- 5U.S. Marine Corps1× joint
- 6Werner Enterprises1× joint2 total
All 7 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Kodiak AI x Atlas Energy Solutions 24/7 Driverless FleetwithAtlas Energy Solutionsdeployment2026-06-15operating
- Kodiak x US Marine Corps Autonomous VehiclewithU.S. Marine Corpsdeployment2026-06-15operating
- technology2026-05-07just announced
- technology2026-02-17operating
- Kodiak AI x BoschwithBoschtechnology2026-01-08operating
- Kodiak Robotics x Atlas Energy SolutionswithAtlas Energy Solutionsdeployment2024-08-01operating
Funding rounds (2)
Kodiak Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $225M in total, oldest to newest.
- PIPE2026-05-07
$100M(reported) · $500M post
Investors: Ares Management (lead)
- Series B2021-11-10
$125M(reported)
Investors: Battery Ventures, Bridgestone Americas, Gopher Assets
Patent estate (5)
- US20220144185A1usptopendingassignee
- US9958864B2usptograntedgranted 2018-05-01assignee
- US12570280B2usptograntedgranted 2024-09-10assignee
- US20240190467A1usptopendingassignee
- US20240303997A1usptopendingassignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Kodiak Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: NVIDIA
2026-08-23Supply: NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for Kodiak from NVIDIA
New supplierNew supplier: Luminar Technologies
2026-08-23Supply: Luminar Iris LiDAR for Kodiak from Luminar Technologies
New supplierNew supplier: Hesai Technology
2026-08-23Supply: Hesai 360° scanning LiDAR for Kodiak from Hesai Technology
PartnershipKodiak AI x Atlas Energy Solutions 24/7 Driverless Fleet
2026-06-15Kodiak AI delivered two additional driverless trucks to Atlas Energy Solutions, expanding fleet to four. Launching 24/7 driverless operations.
PartnershipKodiak x US Marine Corps Autonomous Vehicle
2026-06-15Kodiak Robotics was awarded a U.S. Marine Corps contract to demonstrate its autonomous system for the ROGUE-Fires program, leveraging its existing software stack and hardware interfaces for military ground vehicle resupply.
Funding roundPIPE funding round
2026-05-07PIPE raising $100000000
PartnershipTangram Vision x Kodiak Robotics
2026-02-17Kodiak Robotics uses Tangram Vision's MetriCal calibration workflows for its autonomous trucking fleet, ensuring sensor stacks remain calibrated for on-road operations.
PartnershipKodiak AI x Bosch
2026-01-08Kodiak Robotics and Bosch announced a strategic partnership at CES 2026 to scale production-grade, redundant autonomous trucking hardware for self-driving trucks in North America.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2026
Kodiak Driverless Truck at Permian Basin, Texas, USA
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMar 31, 2026
Kodiak Driverless Truck at Permian Basin, Texas, USA
- Deployment recordedJan 1, 2026
Kodiak Driverless Truck at United States
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 10, 2025
Kodiak Driverless Truck at Atlas Energy Services, Texas, USA
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-31
Verification posture
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-31
Sources by quality tier
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- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Kodiak Robotics.Peer companies
- Waymo5 models
- Tesla4 models
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions4 models
- Aurora Innovation3 models
- Plus3 models
- Caterpillar2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Kodiak Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Kodiak AI, Aurora Innovation see Q3 growth in autonomous truck market
Kodiak AI posted $770K Q3 revenue (up 92.5% YoY) with a 100-truck Atlas Energy Solutions order, while Aurora Innovation reached $1M Q3 revenue and surpassed 100,000 driverless…
Kodiak AI and AMD Collaborate to Advance Computing Power for Driverless Trucking
Kodiak AI announced a collaboration with AMD to implement AMD EPYC Series processors in Kodiak’s seventh-generation autonomous truck platform for high-performance sensor data…
Roush Delivers First Driverless Kodiak-Driver Equipped Autonomous Truck
Roush delivered the first production Kodiak Driver-equipped autonomous truck to Atlas Energy Solutions in August 2026, part of a 100-truck order, as Kodiak scales upfitting…
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Kodiak to launch autonomous testing on public roads in California
Kodiak AI received California DMV approval to test autonomous trucks on state roadways with drivers onboard, with operations starting immediately; the phased permit path…
Kodiak AI Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results and Advances Toward Long-Haul Driverless Launch
Kodiak AI reported Q2 2026 results including deployment of seven additional driverless trucks bringing the customer-owned fleet to 35 vehicles, and introduced its…
Atlas Plans to Expand Kodiak Driverless Fleet to 100 Trucks
Atlas Energy Solutions plans to grow its Kodiak AI-powered driverless truck fleet to 100 vehicles by mid-2027 and is running driverless trucks from two load-out locations…
Roush Delivers First Kodiak AI Driver-Powered Truck to Atlas Energy Solutions
Kodiak AI and Roush announced the first Kodiak Driver-powered truck from Roush's production line, delivered to Atlas Energy Solutions for driverless logistics operations.
Autonomous Trucking Leaders Say Virtual Drivers Are Ready for Scale
Virtual driver moving from validation to commercial scale. OEM integration, customer operations, and AI-driven reliability advancing.
Kodiak AI Delivers First Customer-Owned Driverless RoboTrucks to Atlas
Kodiak AI and Atlas Energy Solutions achieved a historic milestone with the first-ever customer-owned autonomous RoboTruck fleet completing 100 deliveries in the Permian Basin.
Kodiak completes round-trip coast-to-coast autonomous truck run, seals new partnership
Kodiak completed round-trip coast-to-coast autonomous truck run. Sealed new freight partnership. Demonstrating long-haul autonomous capability.
Kodiak AI Delivers More Driverless Trucks to Atlas for 24/7 Use
Kodiak AI delivered two more autonomous trucks to Atlas Energy Solutions, expanding fleet to four and launching 24/7 driverless operations.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/kodiak-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/kodiak-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/719aff4f-6b15-4f2d-afcc-b8e09f2b7fa1
- Revision history: /companies/kodiak-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Waymo5 models
- Tesla4 models
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions4 models
- Aurora Innovation3 models
- Plus3 models
- Caterpillar2 models
Video
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The Kodiak Driver constantly monitors every element of the truck, from engine status to tire pressure to all components of the self-driving system. Should anyth
What Happened To Werner and Kodiak Autonomous Truck Runs? In this video, Dave talks about the planned runs between Dallas and Lake City FL, by Werner and Kodiak
Don Burnette, Kodiak AI founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the potential benefits of AI powered trucking, how autonomous trucking technology works,
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Heat Index
Category contender87/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Kodiak Robotics draws attention at the 85th percentile but verifies reality at the 86th percentile among truck robots. Hype Gap -0.8, 25th widest among truck robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 12 verified deployments. Strong deployment footprint with 5 operational sites across 10 countries. Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 2, 2026