The Silicon Valley company will adapt its software to guide autonomous military vehicles that will be used for future surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Kodiak, a Silicon Valley-based developer of autonomous truck technology, is expanding its business with a $49.9 million contract from the U.S. Defense Department to help develop software for an offroad robotic vehicle the Army wants to use for future combat applications.
The Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways project will prototype software for the navigation of uncrewed vehicles.On city streets, self-driving cars have stalled out from their initial promise, but military uses like this add to the list of other applications for the technology, including autonomous tractors and trucks for agriculture and mining, not to mention the trucking applications Kodiak is working to commercialize.
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