What is new about the Gen7 hardware?
Kodiak says Gen7 has a more compact design and nearly 50 percent more compute power than Gen6. The company also says stress testing indicates longer expected lifetimes for its SensorPods and compute enclosures; those are company-reported comparisons, not independent fleet results.
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Kodiak’s New Driverless Trucks Expand a Specific Industrial RouteTwo Western Star 49X trucks with Kodiak’s Gen7 system entered Atlas’s Permian fleet. The deployment is industrial and route-bound, not a general highway launch.
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