Can Kodiak Robotics compete with the big boys of autonomous trucking?
Now ready for commercialization, latecomer has a lot of catching up to do
0 176 4 minutes read Kodiak Robotics got a later start than its competitors but is determined to be a survivor in the autonomous trucking race. (Photo: Kodiak Robotics)
Kodiak Robotics is one of several Silicon Valley autonomous trucking software developers. But it gets less attention than players that started earlier. It also lacks the fundraising and manufacturer partnerships that competitors have.
TuSimple’s public trading debut, the reputational credit given to Google-backed Waymo Via and partner-rich Aurora Innovation crowd out Kodiak. China-backed Plus generates significantly more headlines. More recently, Embark Trucks has, too.
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Kodiak Robotics is one of several Silicon Valley autonomous trucking software developers. But it gets less attention than players that started earlier. It also lacks the fundraising and manufacturer partnerships that competitors have.
TuSimple s public trading debut, the reputational credit given to
Google-backed (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Waymo Via and partner-rich Aurora Innovation crowd out Kodiak. China-backed Plus generates significantly more headlines. More recently, Embark Trucks has, too. I think the technology story hasn t really gotten a tremendous amount of coverage over the last year and a half, two years, somewhat sadly, from this technologist s perspective, Kodiak co-founder Don Burnette told FreightWaves.
Self-driving truck company Kodiak Robotics is hitting automation milestones on Texas roadways and earning itself honors at the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show.
Kodiak based in Mountian View, Calif., but performing much of its operations out of North Texas is the first company in the self-driving trucking industry to be recognized as a CES Innovation Award Honoree, according to co-founder and CEO Don Burnette.
“Over the past year, the self-driving industry has begun to recognize what we have long known: that trucks will be the first autonomous vehicles on the road at scale,” Burnette, a veteran of Google’s self-driving car project, said in a statement.
Kodiak Robotics Named As CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Kodiak Robotics today announced that it has been named a
CES® 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree for the Company s self-driving long-haul trucks. The announcement was made ahead of the first-ever, all-digital
CES 2021, the world s most influential technology event, happening Jan. 11-14, 2021.
The CES Innovation Awards program, owned and produced by the
Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 28 product categories. An
elite panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetic and design.