Bosch Group, a global supplier of technology and services with its North American operations in Farmington Hills, is collaborating with Kodiak AI Inc. in California, a provider of AI-powered autonomous driving technology, to scale the manufacturing of a production-grade, redundant autonomous platform for large trucks.
The platform contains specialized hardware, firmware, and software interfaces that enable the Kodiak Driver, Kodiak’s AI-powered driver, to automate trucks — either on a vehicle production line or through an upfitter.
The Kodiak Driver combines advanced AI-driven software with modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware into a single, unified platform. Through the agreement, Bosch will support the development of a redundant autonomous platform that combines the integrated automotive-grade hardware, firmware, and software interfaces.
Bosch 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,” says Paul Thomas, president of Bosch in North America and president 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.”
A Kodiak Driver-powered autonomous truck will be on display this week in the Bosch exhibit at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
“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,” says 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.”
In addition to its North American headquarters in Farmington Hills, in Michigan, Bosch operates the Robert Bosch Plymouth Township Technical Center, its Automotive Proving Ground in Flat Rock, and the Robert Bosch Braking Systems facility in St. Joseph in west Michigan.
For more information about Bosch, visit bosch.com.
To learn more about Kodiak, visit kodic.ai.
