Kodama raises $7M to bring physical AI to southeastern U.S. forestry
Original titleKodama raises $7M to bring robotics to forestry
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Kodama Systems has raised $7 million to bring physical AI to forestry, bringing its total funding to $14 million.
The company says its supervised autonomy and teleoperation technology has moved more than 100,000 tons of timber across multiple southeastern states over the past six months.
Konvoy Ventures and Breakwater Ventures co-led the round, which will fund commercial deployments and OEM partnerships.
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The article ties the $7M raise to a labor shortage in southeastern forestry, showing how a startup's teleoperation-first approach is being deployed on logging machines.
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