Contact us Menu Bosch Global English Deutsch Home Research Fields of innovation Fully autonomous systems Fields of innovation AI-enabled fully autonomous systems New innovative products for hundreds of millions of people At Bosch Research, we work in two areas of autonomous systems: automated driving and robotics. In our research, we address the challenges to make these systems perform reliably, safely, and sustainably, with the goals to advance scientific progress and deliver solutions for new products, which bring innovation to hundreds of millions of people. After Chess, Go and Jeopardy, machines have reached superhuman performance at recognizing objects in images and understanding conversational speech. Electronics Frontier Foundation, AI Progress Metrics, 2018 Technological revolution Self-driving cars, collaborative production assistants, and socially-enabled domestic robots are examples of autonomous systems at Bosch. Autonomous systems operate in complex and open-ended environments with high levels of independence and self-determination. They perceive, learn, reason and act with self-awareness and respond intelligently to unforeseen changes in the environment. We believe that such systems have the potential to deeply impact 21st century societies. They will increase quality of life for everyone, transform mobility, raise productivity, improve resource use, and enhance human safety. In our research, we advance the state of the art for technologies critical to autonomous systems, particularly in computer vision, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, control, validation and safety, sensors, and material science. In our basic research activities, we develop new theories and algorithms, collaborate with academia and follow an open innovation policy with our scientific publications and contributions to open source software. In applied research, we pre-develop and transfer research results to our business units. That allows Bosch to introduce new generations of intelligent products and services that bring innovation to hundreds of millions of people. We focus on two areas of autonomous systems: automated driving and robotics. Automated driving Automated driving will be the cornerstone of future mobility systems. Highly automated and driverless cars will make traffic safer, more convenient and more efficient. Our research in automated driving spans a large variety of topics from deep learning for multi-modal scene perception and understanding, online decision-making, and large-scale simulations to novel methodologies for validation and safety. We additionally focus on training, testing, increasing robustness as well as generalization of our methods across different vehicles, use-cases, and business models. The outcomes affect partially and highly automated driving in fully automated and mixed traffic. Driverless transport systems A step in this direction are driverless transport systems on fixed routes or in a secured environment. With our campus shuttle as research vehicle we derive insights for urban automated driving. More about our campus shuttle Robotics Robotics is both an enabling technology for autonomous systems and an application domain. We work on problems that extend the state of the art in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), robot perception, planning, simulation and coordination and control, using both model and data-based methods. Examples include 24/7 year-round cm-accuracy life-long SLAM, long-term human motion prediction and deep reinforcement learning for manipulation. Our solutions are transferred into a uniquely diverse portfolio of products ranging from lightweight consumer robots, intralogistics transportation platforms, collaborative production assistants, and field robots for precision agriculture to 60-ton cargo movers. Summary Bosch believes in the disruptive potential of fully autonomous systems. Technologies being developed by Bosch, such as automated driving and robotics will change 21st century societies as we know them. Get in touch with our expert Dr. Kai Oliver Arras E-mail Kaioliver.Arras.ext@de.bosch.com Share this on: Bosch Research Blog Interested in the latest research topics? In the Bosch Research Blog, our researchers share hands-on information about their work at the detailed level and on a regular basis. Check out the latest updates on the Bosch Research Blog Find related topics Our expert in robotics Kai Oliver Arras ViPAS – AI in automated optical inspection Read more Our expert for automated driving Steffen Knoop Driverless transport systems Read more IoT@ life Read more Still looking for something? 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