Kodiak Driverless Truck

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 65M total including a 25M Series B from Battery Ventures and Bridgestone Americas.

Yes. Kodiak Driverless Truck is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.

Kodiak Driverless Truck is made by Kodiak Robotics, based in Mountain View, CA, USA, founded in 2018.

10 verified deployments of Kodiak Driverless Truck are on the DEPLOY registry, including at Dallas, Texas, USA, Permian Basin, Texas, USA, United States.

Kodiak Driverless Truck is in pilot deployments with named customers and is not yet broadly for sale.

Kodiak Driverless Truck runs Kodiak Driver. Each brain assignment is verified at the registry level via primary sources.

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable truck robots to Kodiak Driverless Truck include Gatik Autonomous Box Truck, Aurora Driver on International LT (2nd-gen), Kodiak Driver, Plus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck.

Kodiak Driverless Truck and Gatik Autonomous Box Truck (Gatik · 12 deployments) are both truck robots on the DEPLOY registry. Kodiak Driverless Truck has 10 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Kodiak Driverless Truck ranks in roughly the top 8% of truck models tracked by the registry.

Kodiak Driverless Truck is at the pilot stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Pilot stage means at least one named-customer trial deployment is verified.

Kodiak Driverless Truck has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

As of Q3 2025, Kodiak had 10 driverless trucks in operation, over 3 million cumulative autonomous miles, and more than 5,200 hours of paid driverless service. In Q1 2026 alone, Kodiak accumulated over 23,500 cumulative hours of paid driverless operations, a 120% increase. The company plans to begin long-haul driverless service in H2 2026.