An autonomous truck from Kodiak Robotics managed several round trips between Dallas and Houston, a total distance of 800 miles, requiring one intervention by the human safety driver, as is seen in a video released by the California-based startup.
Earlier Kodiak Robotics has been named a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree for the Company’s self-driving long-haul trucks. The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 28 product categories.
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Kodiak was founded in 2018 by self-driving industry veteran Don Burnette and venture capitalist Paz Eshel. Kodiak delivered its first load in 2019, with a Safety Driver behind the wheel of the truck. It has testing and freight operations from a facility in North Texas. The Company delivers freight daily between Dallas and Houston, operating autonomously on the middle-mile highway portion of the route.
