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Bonus - Michael Wiesinger | Kodiak Robotics – Driverless Deliveries & Breaking Down the Recent Autonomous Partnership with Atlas Energy Solutions


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Kodiak recently made news, with their our first driverless delivery, in partnership with Atlas Energy Solutions Inc., the leading provider of proppant and proppant logistics in West Texas’s Permian Basin. This is a big development for Kodiak, as well as the greater AV industry. Michael Wiesinger (Future of Mobility Episode 157 Guest) joins for this bonus episode to breakdown the news and the situation

Links:

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-wiesinger-ab291590/
  • Press release: https://kodiak.ai/news/kodiak-and-atlas-pioneering-driverless-logistics
  • Solutions page - https://kodiak.ai/solutions/
  • Gen5 - https://kodiak.ai/news/smarter-faster-just-as-safe/
  • Michael’s Bio:

    Michael Wiesinger is the Vice President of Commercialization at Kodiak, and responsible for driving business development and major partnerships, defining Kodiak’s commercial product and deploying it with the mission to optimize value for Kodiak’s customers. Michael spent most of his career in the automotive and supply chain industries. He worked for Detroit Diesel, a Daimler Truck subsidiary, before he joined BCG, where he focused on strategy, operations and supply chain topics for some of the world’s largest automotive OEMs. Michael was also part of the team that launched Ware2Go, a UPS company, where he built the company’s initial warehouse network and led all supply chain related topics

    About Kodiak Robotics:

    Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 to develop autonomous technology that carries freight forward — so people, partners, and the planet thrive. The company is developing an industry-leading technology stack purpose-built for long-haul trucks, making the freight industry safer and more efficient. Kodiak's unique modular hardware approach integrates sensors into a streamlined sensor-pod structure that optimizes for perception, scalability, and maintainability. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the South, operating autonomously on the highway portions of the routes. Kodiak also leverages its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense.

    Future of Mobility:

    The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields.

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