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Kodama Systems says it raised $7 million to expand its forestry automation, bringing its total funding to $14 million. The company has shifted emphasis from wildfire-risk work in the western U.S. toward commercial logging in the southeast. Its system combines supervised autonomy with remote operation so people can handle difficult situations while machines perform more repeatable work.
Kodama says equipment using its technology has moved more than 100,000 tons of timber across several states during the past six months. The company is currently working with skidders and wants to extend the system to other forestry machines. Those deployment and volume figures are company-reported; the article does not independently measure labor, safety or productivity gains.