Kodiak made the first driverless truck supply to the Customer Atlas Energy

Kodiak Robotics has officially handed over two autonomous trucks to the Customer Atlas Energy Solutions, and this was the first commercial presentation of the startup.

Atlas, a provider of propartial (ie, sand) and oil field, received the first trucks equipped with Kodiak in December, and shortly afterwards, in the remote Perm Basin, the inhabitic environment began to operate. According to Kodiak’s founder and CEO Don Burnetten, the company has already delivered 100 trucks using trucks manually managed without a human security driver behind the wheel.

Burnette told Techcrunch: “As far as we know, this is the first time that the customer has a driverless car instead of a driver, and we think this is a model of the future.”

Kodiak so far – and his opponents in his space Aurora Innovation And Waabi – carried out commercial pilots for clients on highways with human security drivers behind the wheel. During these pilots, the trucks belonging to Kodiak were carried on behalf of shippers or carriers.. The goal is to sell AI Driver-A-Solution to companies such as Atlas. In other words, Kodiak and others do not want to carry out their transportation operations in the long run, but they pay attention to the sale of self-government technology.

For comparison, companies such as Waymo and previously cruise have owned their ride-filled services in the Robot-Aksi Industry, but WAYMO recently Cooperation with Uber and Moovit The company is finally a sign that it can give up such services.

Kodiak first announced that Cooperation with Atlas in July 2024 After completing the first driver of the two Kodiak, there will be a frace sand in the remote Perm Basin – the unstructured, unsupiable environment. Although Kodiak still owns active pilots on highways and plans to carry out long-range cargo transportation, the Atlas agreement is the main part of the strategy of the start-round market.

According to Burnette, there are unique challenges of road inscription – there are no HD maps to constantly changing landscapes and trust – but it offers a highway to drive a highway.

And this bet already bears its fruit.

Kodiak is now a combined apparatus and software, which includes the value of Kodiak modular sensors, also includes self-managing software, monitoring and update services, earns income from an annual subscription.

“We integrate APIs (customer traffic management system), which allows you to effectively use the existing tools to effectively do the driving trucks. “But more importantly, they control logistics. We do not interfere with this. When we simply work on trucks, we are sure that they are healthy, safe, and if there is any problem, we can intervene and provide maintenance.

Atlas operating in the diet of 75,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, so Cohiak plans to expand the driverless cargo placements during the year, to support the operations of the Atlas, a Office of Texas – 18,000 -12 Kodiak employees with a team of 16,000 -12 kodiak employees the object. Kodiak intends to increase this figure to about 20 people by the end of the first quarter.