Facts

• Segment: Subsystems
• Country: Germany
• Founded: 1886
• Website: https://www.bosch.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Bosch supplies mobility technology, industrial automation, sensors, software and consumer products. Its robotics relevance spans manufacturing automation, Rexroth motion and hydraulics, sensors, connected devices and strategic investment or partnership activity around humanoids, industrial robots and physical-AI systems.

Market context

Bosch sits close to the enabling stack for robotics builders needing sensing, actuation, motion, safety, connectivity, industrial validation, and manufacturing support. Its robotics partnerships make it a deployment and data-collection layer for embodied intelligence. Bosch contributes to robotics through sensing, actuation, drive and control systems, industrial automation, mobility electronics, manufacturing technology, and Bosch Rexroth motion/control infrastructure used around robotic systems.

Products

• BHI360 Smart IMU

Facts

• Website: https://www.bosch.com/
• HQ: Gerlingen, Germany
• Founded: 1886
• Segment: Subsystems

Subsystems, software and sensing for autonomous machinery

Bosch participates in robotics through engineering services, autonomy software modules, localization, navigation, object recognition and surround-sensing components for robots and autonomous machinery. Its official robotics material emphasizes integration of software, sensors and control units for mobile machinery and industrial automation use cases.

• Target environment: Mobile robots, autonomous machinery, agricultural equipment, construction machinery, professional cleaning machines, intralogistics systems and off-highway automation programs.
• Deployment model: Engineering and component-supply model built around autonomy software, sensor systems, control-unit integration, Bosch Rexroth automation hardware and customer-specific robotics projects.
• Customer context: Robot builders, machine OEMs, off-highway equipment manufacturers, industrial automation teams and customers adapting manually controlled machines toward autonomy.
• Workflow context: Localization, navigation, object recognition, surround sensing, functional safety, robot autonomy software, off-highway automation, professional cleaning-machine autonomy and production-oriented roboti…
• Commercial maturity: Mature industrial technology group. Its robotics exposure is mostly enabling infrastructure and subsystem integration rather than branded robot platforms.
• Market position: Robotics-enabling supplier in the autonomy software, sensing, actuation and industrial automation stack.
• Adoption constraints: Customer design wins, integration complexity, field reliability, safety validation, environmental robustness, OEM adoption timelines and competition from specialized autonomy and sensing suppliers.
• Adjacent context: Robotics software, localization, navigation, object recognition, sensors, Bosch Rexroth automation, autonomous machinery and off-highway robotics.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-21 - Partnership - Humanoid secures Bosch manufacturing partnership after HMND 01 POC - Humanoid announced a Bosch partnership after a March 2026 proof of concept in Bühl, Germany.
• 2026-05-06 - Partnership - Spirit AI and Bosch China partner on embodied-intelligence deployment - Spirit AI and Bosch China signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote large-scale deployment of embodied intelli…
• 2023-04-24 - Partnership - Bosch Engineering and Hako develop automation software for autonomous cleaning machines - Bosch Engineering and Hako announced a cooperation project to develop automation software for autonomo…

Team

• Stefan Hartung - Chairman of the Board of Management

Supply chain relationships

• Neura Robotics - Technology and industrialization partner - Bosch and NEURA Robotics announced a strategic technology and development partnership for humanoid robotics, including data collection, software collaboration…
• Bosch Rexroth - Bosch subsidiary - Bosch Rexroth is a Bosch subsidiary.
• Bosch Sensortec - Bosch subsidiary - Bosch Sensortec is a Bosch subsidiary.

Relationships

• Humanoid (HMND) - Contract manufacturing partner - Bosch is Humanoid's contract manufacturing partner for HMND 01 production in Europe.

Context tags

• Automotive industrial subsystem supplier - Peer Group - Bosch supplies automotive subsystems and industrial technology.
• Automotive robotics subsystem supply - Workflow - Bosch supplies automotive robotics subsystem components.
• Automotive mechatronic subsystems - Capability - Bosch provides automotive mechatronic subsystems.
• Automotive subsystem layer - Stack Layer - Bosch provides automotive subsystem layer.
• Electronics robotics supply chain - Customer Environment - Bosch serves the electronics robotics supply chain.
• Automotive factories - Customer Environment - Bosch serves automotive factory environments.
• Industrial robot supply chain - Customer Environment - Bosch serves the industrial robot supply chain.