Self-driving truck company Kodiak Robotics is hitting automation milestones on Texas roadways and earning itself honors at the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show. Kodiak — based in Mountian View, Calif., but performing much of its operations out of North Texas — is the first company in the self-driving trucking industry to be recognized as a CES Innovation Award Honoree, according to co-founder and CEO Don Burnette. “Over the past year, the self-driving industry has begun to recognize what we have long known: that trucks will be the first autonomous vehicles on the road at scale,” Burnette, a veteran of Google’s self-driving car project, said in a statement.