From KNOW-HOW to WOW

Tiny but mighty – shoebox-sized rovers might soon explore the moon’s surface. But how do they keep their batteries charged in the harsh lunar wilderness? According to Bosch engineer Vivek Jain, it’s not as simple as your vacuum cleaner bot docking at its charging station. One of many reasons: the robot has limited vision. Join our hosts Shuko and Geoff as they explore what it’s like to develop cutting-edge technology for a space mission!

"Close the door!" If you're saying that to your voice assistant instead of your housemates, you have a smart home. But which manufacturer's smart home devices are you using, and do they talk to each other? That question may be less relevant in the future, thanks to a relatively new standard called Matter. Bosch expert Michael Zuegel has been busy making our smart home products Matter-ready. He shares his insights on the technology with hosts Shuko and Melena. They also talk to Youtuber Chris West, who maintains a complex smart home setup with automations that make life easier - except when they go wrong. Now tell your voice assistant, "Play the episode!"

Switching it up! This episode, we’re talking about a person - one person in particular, our company’s founder Robert Bosch. Our host Geoff, a self-declared Bosch fanboy, sits down with Dietrich Kuhlgatz, Director Historical Communications at Bosch. Dietrich brings some treasures, including a diary and actual sound bites from Robert Bosch himself. Meanwhile, co-host Melena has a closer look at the device that was the “big bang” for Bosch, the ignition magneto. This first Bosch bestseller provided the foundation for what the company is today. But what is it? History of the Bosch-Zünder Magazine https://www.bosch.com/stories/bosch-zuender-associate-magazine/ The magneto ignition https://www.bosch-classic.com/de/en/products/range-of-spare-parts/ignition/

Ready for another round? In the second part of our double feature on Vehicle Motion Management, Melena pretends to encounter a moose on the test track, while Shuko gets technical about by-wire technology as one of the enablers of software-controlled vehicle actuators such as brakes, dampers or steering, which can be optimally controlled with the help of Vehicle Motion Management. Bosch expert Philipp Debes performs vigorous maneuvers to demonstrate how this technology helps stabilize vehicles while giving the driver improved control. Bosch product owner Enrico Haberkern returns to discuss how Vehicle Motion Management also has the potential to increase efficiency. Buckle up! Vehicle Motion Management Part 1: https://fromknowhowtowow.podigee.io/71-vehicle-motion-management-part-1

Aaaaand stop! Ugh, do you know that jolt in your body just before a braking car comes to a complete standstill? That's a thing of the past: Bosch engineers have made it disappear. They use an EV's electric drive to provide extremely smooth, software-controlled braking. This feature, called e-brake to zero, is just one example of how algorithms can improve the driving experience. While Melena tries it out on a test track with Bosch expert Thomas Friedrich, Shuko and Bosch product owner Enrico Haberkern see what else Vehicle Motion Management can do. The core idea is that a driving task is no longer performed by a single actuator, but by an intelligent combination of actuators. Let's get started!

Amazing deal or cheap counterfeit product? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. Orgify can authenticate pre-registered products in an instant. This Deep Dive episode offers a closer look at how registration and authentication work. We also look at how the technology enables new ways for brands to get in touch with customers who bought a pre-owned product.

Fake! Or is it? It's getting harder and harder to tell if something is real or not. This applies not only to images or facts, but also to physical goods such as consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, or luxury watches. Bosch engineer Louis Tepper is part of a team that has developed a solution: Origify is able to scan and recognize the surface of an item based on a simple smartphone image. Melena and Shuko test it. In the process, they learn a lot about the luxury and vintage watch industry. They meet a young Danish watchmaker, Rune Bakkendorff, who builds watches from scratch. Origify, it turns out, could not only help consumers identify counterfeit products, but also help experts authenticate spare parts or industry identify parts too small for serial numbers or QR codes. What time is it? Time to listen to this episode! www.linkedin.com/showcase/bosch-origify EN: www.bosch-origify.com DE: www.bosch-origify.com/de

Generative AI or large vision-language models can improve advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in various ways. Dr. Liu Ren of Bosch Research in Sunnyvale, California, explains how foundation models can help label training data and analyze a bird’s eye view representation of a car’s various data sources to improve the functional performance of ADAS. Papers: Xiaoqi Wang, Wenbin He, Xiwei Xuan, Clint Sebastian, Jorge Henrique Piazentin Ono, Xin Li, Sima Behpour, Thang Doan, Liang Gou, Han Wei Shen, Liu Ren. "USE: Universal Segment Embeddings for Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation", at CVPR 2024. Chenbin Pan, Burhan Yaman, Tommaso Nesti, Abhirup Mallik, Alessandro G. Allievi, Senem Velipasalar, Liu Ren. "VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving", at CVPR 2024. Chenbin Pan, Burhan Yaman, Senem Velipasalar, Liu Ren. "CLIP-BEVFormer: Enhancing Multi-View Image-Based BEV Detector with Ground Truth Flow", at CVPR 2024.

Prompt battle! We've all tried giving generative AI chatbots instructions that yield useful results. Recently, GenAI has rapidly expanded across various industries. But can it help drive a car? Dr. Liu Ren, Vice President and Chief Scientist for scalable and assistive AI at Bosch Research, is confident it can. He and his team are at the forefront of integrating foundation models such as large language models or vision-language models with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). In this episode, Liu explains to our hosts, Shuko and Geoff, how the extensive knowledge contained in foundation models can enhance the perception, prediction, and planning capabilities of ADAS. What's even more impressive is that Bosch Research’s approach works despite the constrained resources typical in vehicle environments. As Liu shares his cutting-edge research, Shuko and Geoff go head-to-head in a challenge: Who can craft the cleverest prompts for GenAI? Credits: 1. Chenbin Pan, Burhan Yaman, Tommaso Nesti, Abhirup Mallik, Alessandro G Allievi, Senem Velipasalar, Liu Ren. “VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving”, The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR 2024). 2. Xiaoqi Wang, Wenbin He, Xiwei Xuan, Clint Sebastian, Jorge Henrique Piazentin Ono, Xin Li, Sima Behpour, Thang Doan, Liang Gou, Han Wei Shen, Liu Ren. “USE: Universal Segment Embeddings for Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation” , The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR 2024). 3.Chenbin Pan, Burhan Yaman, Senem Velipasalar, Liu Ren. “CLIP-BEVFormer: Enhancing Multi-View Image-Based BEV Detector with Ground Truth Flow”, The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR 2024). More Bosch podcasts: From Know-how to Wow with Liu Ren, all about “Visual Analytics”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmR97fW_B3I Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

The OGS, the Optical Gas Spectrometer, is a feat of engineering. In the previous episode, we discussed what it can do and how it works. Today, Bosch associate and OGS inventor Alex Stratmann talks more about turning Raman spectrometers into an industrial product. Many considerations had to be made, from the custom laser source to the material used for the seals, and we also learn that OGS development hasn't stopped: The team is working on a high-pressure version and on efforts to measure almost any gas in the world. More Bosch podcasts: Previous episode: https://fromknowhowtowow.podigee.io/65-optical-gas-spectrometer Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Take a deep breath. What you just breathed in was probably about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen and some minor other components. But how do you measure that? Measuring gases and their concentrations has been pretty difficult, says Bosch physicist Alex Stratmann. His team’s invention, the optical gas spectrometer, OGS, is set to change that. It packs what used to be a complex lab setup into a tabletop device. OGS leverages Raman spectroscopy, a method that exists for about a 100 years and has been used e.g. in the art world to analyze pigments. Our hosts Melena and Shuko learn from Cristina Aibéo, a chemist at Berlin’s National Museums, how Raman spectroscopy can help solve crimes and also save energy. At Bosch, on the other hand, the OGS helps with measuring hydrogen - and thus with the transition to a green hydrogen economy. Breathe in, breathe out, hit play! From Know-how to Wow”: How to produce green hydrogen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvbHOY7GAig

Bosch’s interior sensing solutions for vehicles can include a driver and/or occupant-monitoring camera, along with an interior radar. All three have distinct capabilities but together they enable not only reliable safety features, but also new comfort features. Bosch product manager Tyler Warga shares details about how the system works and how it handles difficult situations like changing light conditions or obstructions, e.g. sunglasses. Per usual, your host is Geoff’s voice avatar. More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

You’re driving in your car, you notice a new restaurant as you drive past and you wonder: What was that? A car of the not-so-distant future may be able to answer that question. Because it knows what a driver (or passenger) is looking at - be it a landmark on the side of the road, the dashboard, or the road ahead. In the first place, monitoring the driver's gaze and head position enables important safety features, says Bosch product manager Tyler Warga. Geoff and Shuko learn how cameras and radar sensors can pick up signals that people are subconsciously sending. This can help prevent drunk driving, reduce distractions, and save children's lives. Future autonomous cars could even benefit from a sense of the driver's emotional state: they could pick up on Duchenne smiles. As University of Missouri professor Kennon Sheldon explains, this type of smile signals honest amusement. So be amused and wowed when you join us for a sensor-packed ride! More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Today, artificial intelligence is often synonymous with neural networks. But they're not always the smartest choice. Daniel Jung of Bosch Sensortec in Sweden explains why the Smart Connected Sensors technology platform uses a different kind of AI. He also reveals some other tricks that make the Smart Connected Sensors efficient and reliable. Your host, as usual for our deep dive episodes, is Geoff's voice avatar. More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Move it — and do it with precision! Join our host Geoff at CES in Las Vegas, where he tests the brand new Smart Connected Sensors from Bosch Sensortec. This technology platform, comprising up to eight connected sensor nodes with various sensors, not only tracks movements but also benchmarks them against a reference. How well does Geoff mimic the motions of a virtual robot? Sure, that’s fun to find out, but product manager Abhinav Kunchamwar delves into diverse applications where precise motion tracking is transformative. He shares insights with this month’s hosts Shuko and Melena. They also learn more about the hardware than expected, as Geoff accidentally breaks open one of the sensor casings. Whoops! More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Self-charging cars! They’re a thing, as we know since our CES live show. Join Geoff’s voice avatar and our in-house expert Andrew Krier for an exclusive closer look at automated valet charging, or AVC. Imagine electric vehicles autonomously navigating to chargers, guided by advanced camera systems: convenience meets technology - a glimpse into how we'll soon be rolling! Show notes: More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Let's spin the reels of innovation! Our hosts Melena and Geoff are at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, exploring Bosch's latest innovations in the areas of mobility and living. However, it wouldn’t be a trip to Las Vegas without a few surprises. Melena and Geoff are challenging each other in a competition: They’re testing their knowledge about Automated Valet Charging and the IDS Ultra heat pump for cold climates. With support from Bosch experts Andrew Krier and Goncalo Costa, they'll answer questions selected by a virtual slot machine –Vegas-style! And who knows, maybe our #LikeABosch hero Shawn will also make a special appearance?!

A year ago, From Know-how to Wow introduced AI-hosted Deep Dive episodes. We've compiled the nerdiest bits from 12 months of Deep Dives - and added a little holiday cheer at the end. Join Geoff's voice avatar for a look back at our episodes on spatial audio, quantum sensors, and more! More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Accept all cookies! At least when it comes to the Christmas cookies that Shuko and Geoff make. Speaking of cooking, Patrick Schiebeck has been working on making ovens smarter by equipping them with a camera and artificial intelligence. At BSH, a Bosch subsidiary, a new generation of ovens can visually recognize pizza and many other dishes and cook them to the desired browning level. Perfect results every time! Meanwhile, Scott Wiener, New York City's number one pizza expert, explains how professional pizza makers achieve perfect pies with ovens that don't even have dials to adjust the heat. He also knows why pizza is indeed popular during the holidays. What would you put on a holiday pizza? More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/

Stirring a hot soup of molten metal with a beam of light - this kind of fascinating technology is part of Peter Stritt's daily routine. At Bosch Research, he uses a new generation of lasers - beam-shaping lasers - to invent new production processes. In this Deep Dive episode, he explains how laser beams are shaped, what different shapes can be used for, how AI helps his experiments, and, of course, how a laser can stir a weld pool. More Bosch podcasts: Beyond Bosch: https://podtail.com/de/podcast/beyond-bosch/