Kodiak taps Bosch to scale its self-driving truck tech

Self-driving trucks institution Kodiak AI announced connected Monday it is moving with planetary automotive supplier Bosch to make a strategy of hardware and bundle that tin springiness modular large rigs autonomous driving capabilities.

The collaboration was announced astatine the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show successful Las Vegas, and it could assistance Kodiak bring its self-driving tech to much trucks, faster.

Kodiak, which is processing self-driving trucks for highway, industrial, and defence uses, has already developed and designed a self-driving strategy with redundant systems for braking, steering, sensors, and computers. In January 2025, Kodiak’s self-driving trucks began making driverless deliveries for Atlas Energy Solutions successful the oil-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and eastbound New Mexico.

Kodiak has since delivered astatine slightest 8 self-driving trucks to Atlas Energy arsenic portion of an archetypal 100-truck bid nether an statement betwixt the 2 companies. Kodiak has been moving with Roush Industries, which was the upfitter for its driverless trucks delivered to Atlas.

Now, the company, which went nationalist via a merger with special-purpose acquisition institution Ares Acquisition Corporation II successful September 2025, wants to standard its tech for the motortruck masses.

Bosch and Kodiak volition enactment unneurotic connected redundant platforms designed to crook semi trucks — careless of shaper — into driverless ones. Bosch volition proviso Kodiak with a assortment of hardware components, including sensors and conveyance actuation components specified arsenic steering technologies. Notably, these systems tin beryllium added wrong the conveyance accumulation enactment oregon by a third-party upfitter astatine a aboriginal date, according to Kodiak laminitis and CEO Don Burnette.

“We judge collaborating with Bosch volition let america to standard autonomous driving hardware with the modularity, serviceability, and system-level integration needed for commercialized occurrence for some upfit and factory-line integration,” Burnette said successful a statement.

Paul Thomas, who is president of Bosch successful North America and the company’s Bosch Mobility Americas division, appears to spot this arsenic accidental for maturation successful the sector.

“By supplying production-grade hardware, we are enabling the adjacent procreation of autonomous trucking alongside Kodiak,” said Thomas successful a statement. “Kodiak has already deployed trucks with nary humans connected committee successful commercialized cognition and this practice gives america a invaluable accidental to deepen our knowing of real-world autonomous conveyance requirements and to further heighten our offerings for the broader autonomous mobility ecosystem.”

While Kodiak’s program is to standard and Bosch is keen to summation its marketplace stock successful the sector, it’s unclear precisely erstwhile this volition happen. Neither institution provided a timeline for erstwhile these caller systems mightiness spell into accumulation oregon go available.