Iván Hernández Dalas: Kodiak plans to scale autonomous trucking hardware and sensors with Bosch

Kodiak trucks lined up. Bosch will be supplying components for self-driving vehicles.

Kodiak and Bosch plan to scale the manufacturing of a production-grade, redundant autonomous platform. | Source: Kodiak

Kodiak AI Inc., a provider of autonomous driving technology, this week entered into an agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH. The companies plan to collaborate on scaling the manufacturing of a production-grade, redundant autonomous platform.

This platform contains the specialized hardware, firmware, and software interfaces that enable the Kodiak Driver to automate trucks—either on a vehicle production line or through an upfitter.

“Advancing the deployment of driverless trucks and physical AI not only requires robust autonomous technology, but also manufacturing experience and a robust supply chain in order to achieve true scale,” said Don Burnette, founder and CEO of Kodiak. “We believe collaborating with Bosch will allow us to scale autonomous driving hardware with the modularity, serviceability, and system-level integration needed for commercial success for both upfit and factory-line integration.”

Founded in 2018 by Burnette, an industry veteran, Kodiak said it has developed technology to address critical challenges in the transportation industry. These include driver shortages, demands for shorter delivery timelines, and rising costs. The company’s single-platform automated driving system, the Kodiak Driver, combines artificial intelligence software with modular hardware.

In April 2025, Kodiak agreed to be acquired by Ares Acquisition Corp. II, or AACT, an affiliate of Ares Management Corp. and a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Through this combination, Kodiak will become a publicly listed company.

Bosch to provide hardware components for the Kodiak Driver

The Kodiak Driver combines advanced AI-driven software with modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware into a single, unified platform. The platform integrates lessons from commercial trucking and public-sector applications to continuously improve AI models, said the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. It claimed that customers can easily integrate its technology with their existing operations, providing a flexible, scalable, “driver-as-a-service” system tailored to their needs.

Through this agreement, Bosch will support the development of a redundant autonomous platform that combines the integrated automotive-grade hardware, firmware, and software interfaces. The company will supply Kodiak with a variety of hardware components, including sensors and vehicle actuation components, such as steering technologies.

“By supplying production-grade hardware, we are enabling the next generation of autonomous trucking alongside Kodiak,” said Paul Thomas, president of Bosch in North America and of Bosch Mobility Americas. “Kodiak has already deployed trucks with no humans on board in commercial operation, and this cooperation gives us a valuable opportunity to deepen our understanding of real-world autonomous vehicle requirements and to further enhance our offerings for the broader autonomous mobility ecosystem.”

Bosch is the largest global automotive supplier as ranked by Automotive News, and the company’s broad industrialization expertise for automotive-grade components will help Kodiak to scale its Kodiak Driver offering. A Kodiak Driver-powered autonomous truck was on display this week in Bosch’s booth at CES.

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