Bosch wants to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI): by the end of 2027, the technology company will invest more than 2.5 billion euros in this field.
AI is an innovation booster and growth driver for Bosch products and services. It makes automated driving safer, reliably checks quality in manufacturing, and makes everyday life easier for consumers at work, in their free time, and at home.
鈥淭he breakthroughs in AI make it possible to open up completely new chapters in technology, accelerate the development of innovations, and turn these into business,鈥 says Stefan Hartung, chairman of the Bosch board of management.
Bosch was an early adopter of AI, bringing it together with in-depth industrial knowledge and thus gaining a clear competitive advantage. Furthermore, in the past five years, the company has filed more than 1,500 patent applications for inventions in the field of AI 鈥 making it one of the leading applicants in Europe.
Bosch expects its sales of software, sensor technology, high-performance computers, and network components to double by the mid-2030s to well over 10 billion euros. Bosch uses AI in automated driving, for example for visualizing the vehicle鈥檚 surroundings and for route planning. Thanks to AI, the vehicle thinks ahead, anticipates how other road users will behave, and calculates the next steps to get to its destination safely. AI not only ensures greater safety in vehicles, however; it also helps significantly shorten development times for new products. For example, Bosch can draw on a unique database of vehicle sensor data to feed a generative AI solution 鈥 and thus train systems much faster and more efficiently. This could pave the way for even more reliable driving assistants and automated driving functions in the future.
鈥淎gentic AI can give a boost to AI similar to the one the smartphone gave the internet,鈥 says Tanja Rueckert, member of the Bosch board of management.
The revolutionary technology enables various processes to run in parallel. Several AI agents can form a team, a multi-agent system that鈥檚 supervised by humans or a coordinating agent. Bosch is already making use of this possibility in-house: multi-agent systems monitor devices in manufacturing, predict maintenance requirements, and optimize personnel scheduling. 鈥淲e鈥檝e now reached the next level. The result is a reduction in unplanned downtime and an increase in productivity overall,鈥 Rueckert says.
Besides Bosch鈥檚 own plants, other companies will benefit from Bosch鈥檚 expertise in agentic AI: Bosch is developing a platform that will be made available to other companies as of fall 2025, enabling them to create their own multi-agent systems with little or even no programming knowledge. The goal here is to make manufacturing more efficient, reduce costs, and be able to react more flexibly to market requirements. In this way, comprehensive, orchestrated use can save several million euros.