Kodiak AI Partners with Bosch to Scale Autonomous Trucking Hardware Manufacturing

Autonomous trucking has a credibility problem. Not because the technology doesn't work, since Kodiak AI's driverless trucks have already proven they can operate without human drivers in commercial service, logging over three million autonomous miles and delivering more than 10,000 customer loads.

The problem is manufacturing at scale. Until now, most autonomous vehicle companies have developed sophisticated software and sensor suites, but lacked the industrial infrastructure to move from handful-of-trucks pilots into fleets of hundreds, then thousands.

On January 5, 2026, at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, Kodiak AI announced a partnership with Bosch, the world's largest automotive supplier by revenue, to solve that problem. Under the agreement, Bosch will supply Kodiak with automotive-grade components, including sensors and vehicle actuation systems like steering technologies, and collaborate on developing a production-grade, redundant autonomous platform. The partnership marks a critical transition where autonomous trucking is finally moving from demonstration to manufacturing.

"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," Don Burnette, Kodiak's founder and CEO, said in a statement.