5 Autonomous Trucking Companies Hauling Along

Kodiak Robotics

​Kodiak Robotics, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., has spent the past few years building partnerships with several brands that service the trucking industry.

In August, it announced it is working Pilot Company to outfit autonomous truck services at a number of Pilot and Flying J travel centers.

The company has had autonomous trucks out on the road since 2019 and has several routes that run regularly between Dallas and Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, and Jacksonville, Fla.

Robotics companies working on autonomous trucks continue to take on new partnerships as they develop their technologies.

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