Latest New mobility Podcast Episodes
Vehicle Motion Management Part 1
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - July 10, 2024 04:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAaaaand 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-brak...
DEEP DIVE: ORIGIFY
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - June 26, 2024 04:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAmazing 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 ...
ORIGIFY
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - June 12, 2024 04:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFake! 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: O...
DEEP DIVE: HOW GENERATIVE AI CAN HELP DRIVING A CAR
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - May 29, 2024 04:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsGenerative 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 ...
HOW GENERATIVE AI CAN HELP DRIVING A CAR
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - May 15, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPrompt 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 con...
DEEP DIVE: OPTICAL GAS SPECTROMETER
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe 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 mad...
OPTICAL GAS SPECTROMETER
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - April 10, 2024 04:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTake 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...
DEEP DIVE: INTERIOR SENSING SOLUTIONS FOR VEHICLES
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - March 27, 2024 05:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBosch’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 s...
INTERIOR SENSING SOLUTIONS FOR VEHICLES
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - March 13, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsYou’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, o...
DEEP DIVE: SMART CONNECTED SENSORS
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - February 28, 2024 06:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday, 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 S...
SMART CONNECTED SENSORS
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - February 14, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMove 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 ...
DEEP DIVE: LIVE FROM CES 2024
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - January 31, 2024 06:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSelf-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 syste...
LIVE FROM CES 2024
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - January 17, 2024 05:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLet'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...
DEEP DIVE: BEST OF 2023
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - December 27, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA 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...
COOKING WITH AI
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - December 13, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAccept 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 vis...
DEEP DIVE: LASER
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - November 29, 2023 06:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsStirring 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 lase...
LASER
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - November 15, 2023 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhat’s the coolest technology on the planet? Lasers, without a doubt. According to Bosch researcher Peter Stritt, Lasers are about to get even cooler. In his lab, he explores new “beam-shaping lasers” and their potential to enable huge advances in manufacturing as well as entirely new product des...
DEEP DIVE: HOW TO MAKE HEAT PUMPS EVEN MORE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - October 25, 2023 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHeat pumps are a climate-friendly way of heating a home. Replacing F-gases with propane as a refrigerant in heat pumps makes them even more climate-friendly, but presents some technical challenges. In particular, the goal of reducing the amount of refrigerant to less than 152 grams for safe indoo...
HOW TO MAKE HEAT PUMPS EVEN MORE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - October 11, 2023 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHeat pumps are literally the hottest trend in keeping our homes comfortable during the winter. Already much more climate-friendly than gas boilers or oil burners, heat pumps are set to become even more ecological. Markus Sundbrandt of Bosch Home Comfort talks about his search for a refrigerant th...
DEEP DIVE: SAFER ROADS FOR CYCLISTS WITH B2X COMMUNICATION
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - September 27, 2023 05:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith B2X or V2X technology bikes and cars can make each other aware of their position and direction. Bosch associate Andreas Wienss is working with this technology. In this deep dive with Geoff’s voice avatar, he describes various studies he and his colleagues have conducted to make the system re...
B2X COMMUNICATION: SAFER ROADS FOR CYCLISTS
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - September 13, 2023 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings"BREEAAAAK!" the bike screams - figuratively speaking. With B2X, or bike-to-anything communication, bikes can be aware of other vehicles on the road that are out of the rider's view. And vice versa: car drivers can be warned about bikes they did not notice. Melena gets a demo of this technology, ...
DEEP DIVE: HOW TO PRODUCE GREEN HYDROGEN AT SCALE
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - July 26, 2023 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this more in-depth examination of the previous "From KNOW-HOW to WOW" episode, everything revolves around the efficiency of PEM electrolysis (PEM = Proton Exchange Membrane). What role does iridium play as a catalyst? How do you ensure that oxygen bubbles do not hinder the electrochemical reac...
HOW TO PRODUCE GREEN HYDROGEN AT SCALE
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - July 12, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings"I'm the lightest element you'll ever find - but don't be fooled, I'm not to be undermined." Geoff's voice avatar speaks in riddles as Melena and Shuko try to solve a puzzle: the mystery of how to produce green hydrogen. Electrolyzers are the main component for turning renewable energy into hydro...
DEEP DIVE: OPEN SOURCE - THE THIRD AUTOMOTIVE REVOLUTION
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - June 28, 2023 05:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you want to build an app for a software-driven vehicle, how can it access car data? The open-source middleware KUKSA acts as a data broker. It can answer queries, e.g. for the current vehicle speed, and pass commands, e.g. to open the trunk, to the car. KUKSA developer Sebastian Schildt from t...
OPEN SOURCE - THE THIRD AUTOMOTIVE REVOLUTION
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - June 14, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFree cheesecake for everyone! Wait, we misunderstood. Shuko and Geoff talk to Ansgar Lindwedel of Bosch subsidiary ETAS. He is working to establish standards for software in cars, helping the highly proprietary field make the transition to open source. Many other projects have demonstrated the be...
DEEP DIVE: FULLY-AUTOMATED BATTERY RECYCLING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - May 24, 2023 05:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhen electric vehicle batteries reach their end-of-life, each of them is unique and has its own history. Recycling these batteries means that every single one requires a slightly different treatment. While Geoff and Melena discussed the difficulty of discharging these batteries in the previous ep...
FULLY-AUTOMATED BATTERY RECYCLING FOR ELECTRIC CARS
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - May 10, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBattery level: 300%! Get ready for an extra charge of From Know-How to Wow: our show now has three hosts as Melena returns from maternity leave. However, sometimes a charged battery can be a problem. To recycle batteries from electric cars, they need to be completely discharged. Surprisingly, thi...
DEEP DIVE: SMART PLASTIC WASTE SORTING
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - April 26, 2023 05:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHow do you teach an AI the difference between a PET bottle and an HDPE bottle? The Bosch team around Sidharta Andalam combined several sources of information to increase the accuracy of their system. Camera images and terahertz sensor signals are combined to decide if an item should get picked ou...
SMART PLASTIC WASTE SORTING WITH AI
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - April 12, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAn X-ray-like machine, but for waste. That’s what Sidharta Andalam and his team at Bosch Research in Singapore have developed. Instead of X-rays, it uses harmless terahertz waves to identify recyclable materials, help make recycling more profitable, and, in turn, divert recyclables like plastic b...
DEEP DIVE: ON THE ROAD WITH THE RIDECARE COMPANION
From KNOW-HOW to WOW - March 29, 2023 05:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRideCare companion is more than what’s in the box. With two pieces of hardware, live emergency assistance, a driver app and online data storage, the RideCare ecosystem is steered by a cloud service. Geoff’s voice avatar and Sarah Uttendorf dive into the engineering challenge of making a safety cr...
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