Bosch (China) - New radar sensor with Bosch’s own computing chip (SoC) and flexible ADAS solution packages.

At this year’s Auto Shanghai, Bosch is showcasing its extensive portfolio of solutions for assisted and automated driving and parking. It includes software features and hardware components that the technology group is aligning with local drivers’ expectations and that can be easily customized to meet different customer needs. With its radar sensor, Bosch is the first Tier 1 supplier globally to innovate, develop, and manufacture the entire product in-house. The key feature: the sensor includes a specially developed Bosch computing chip — known as a SoC — combining high computing power with the smallest possible footprint.

The radar sensor integrates into Bosch’s newly developed modular system for assisted and automated driving: Bosch’s ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) product family offers an ecosystem of software, sensors, services, and suitable high-performance computers. Customers can flexibly leverage these comprehensive solutions across various markets and vehicle segments — from low-cost small cars to high-performance premium models.

The goal: Bosch aims to make it easier, faster, and more cost-effective for manufacturers worldwide to bring driver assistance functions to the mass market. A new generation of the multifunction camera and inertial sensor unit for precise vehicle localization complements the sensor portfolio.

“With the new Bosch ADAS product family, we are offering cost-effective solutions for assisted and automated driving with our usual high standards of quality and safety. We have the right software and hardware for driver assistance functions — from small cars to mid-range and premium vehicles. This enables automakers to quickly and easily integrate functions into their vehicles and bring them to market much faster,” says Christoph Hartung, President of the Cross-Domain Computing Solutions division at Robert Bosch GmbH.

Bosch’s New ADAS Product Family Available in Three Equipment Variants

Advanced driver assistance systems help increase road safety and comfort, for instance by providing targeted support during monotonous or tiring driving tasks. Bosch has many years of experience in developing, integrating, and implementing these systems. Deep knowledge of every vehicle domain is necessary for optimal implementation.

With this expertise, Bosch is repositioning its ADAS product family. It enables assisted driving and parking up to SAE Level 2, thus meeting prevailing market demand. Bosch offers the ADAS product family in three variants: for the entry-level, mid-range, and high-end segments. Variants differ depending on the software scope, the number and combination of sensors, and the required computing power.

Seamless harmonization of these components simplifies system integration. Bosch provides automakers with quick and easy access to driver assistance systems, significantly accelerating vehicle development timelines. Bosch offers its hardware and software components both as complete system solutions and individually — a flexible approach increasingly common in modern vehicle development.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is integrated throughout Bosch’s ADAS product family. Bosch uses AI for driving perception and planning, allowing vehicles to anticipate other road users’ actions and plan accordingly for safer travel.

The entry-level variant already incorporates essential safety and comfort features, like speed and distance regulation and lane-keeping with clear markings. It can be implemented purely via Bosch’s new multifunction camera or supplemented with up to five radar sensors, depending on safety requirements.

The mid-range variant unlocks more extensive functions, such as an enhanced lane-keeping assistant capable of dealing with unclear lane markings. Computing is no longer done within the camera itself but instead via a more powerful central vehicle computer, now becoming standard in software-defined vehicles.

Thanks to Bosch, vehicles manage more complex traffic scenarios, boosting comfort and safety on highways and in dense traffic. Hands-free highway driving is already included in this variant, subject to national legal frameworks.

The high-end variant represents the pinnacle of Bosch driver assistance. It uses a 360-degree video belt and delivers even greater computing power, allowing the vehicle to handle urban intersections and navigate roundabouts safely. Hands-free driving is extended into urban traffic where legally permitted.

Bosch considers diverse regulatory requirements and safety assessments across markets.

Bosch’s ADAS Product Family Set for Series Production by Mid-2025

The mid-range variant will enter series production with a Chinese manufacturer by mid-2025. Users will benefit from navigation-linked assistance systems — highly popular among Chinese customers — enabling the vehicle to independently perform maneuvers such as highway lane changes based on the inserted route. The driver remains responsible and must be ready to intervene at any time.

Bosch has also secured initial orders for the high-end version, with series production starting in summer 2025. Bosch has already acquired half a dozen new customers in China for the mid-range and high-end ADAS families, including BAIC, Dongfeng, and Jetour, further strengthening its leadership in the global ADAS market.

New Radar Sensor Featuring Bosch’s Proprietary SoC

Radar sensors are key components of driver assistance systems and indispensable in modern vehicles. For the new radar sensor generation, Bosch has developed and manufactured all core elements in-house, including the SoC.

Bosch’s new radar sensor uses “RF CMOS technology,” enabling efficient integration of digital and high-frequency circuits onto a single chip. The transistor structure’s size — just 22 nanometers — makes the chip highly powerful and efficient despite its small footprint. Bosch is the first Tier 1 supplier to bring this technology into series production.

New Generation of the Multifunction Camera

As demand grows for advanced driver assistance features in lower-priced vehicle segments, affordable yet high-performance camera solutions become increasingly important.

Bosch’s new multifunction camera enables assisted driving and parking functions (up to SAE Level 2) starting from entry-level vehicles. Series production is scheduled for 2026, initially for the Chinese market. Bosch’s proprietary optical image processing module ensures ideal sharpness and precision throughout the product’s lifetime, even under highly variable temperatures.

The 8-megapixel camera features a 120-degree horizontal field of view and detection range of up to 300 meters, enabling safety and convenience functions such as adaptive cruise control, emergency braking, lane-keeping in urban areas, and traffic light recognition.

The multifunction camera serves as the central interface for sensor fusion, combining its own imaging data with up to five radars and other sensors, such as driver monitoring or interior sensors. This integrated approach helps OEMs meet mandatory ADAS regulations (e.g., General Safety Regulation), enhance driving safety, and assist drivers during highway lane changes.

Reliable Vehicle Localization in All Driving Situations

For assisted and automated driving, vehicles must reliably localize themselves at all times — even under poor visibility, absent lane markings, or GNSS signal failures (e.g., in tunnels). This ensures high functional availability.

At Auto Shanghai, Bosch is presenting for the first time its new generation of high-performance inertial measurement units (IMUs), specially designed for ADAS and vehicle dynamics applications.

These sensors measure the vehicle’s pitch, roll, yaw, and vertical, longitudinal, and lateral acceleration, precisely calculating the vehicle’s relative positional changes and allowing minimal route deviation.

With different product variants, Bosch offers high scalability, from low-cost entry solutions for assisted driving to high-performance sensors enabling SAE Level 4 automation. Bosch manufactures these sensor modules in-house, drawing on over three decades of expertise.

China’s Growing Role in Global Development

The Chinese market plays a critical role for Bosch. Innovative solutions are developed and brought to market maturity particularly quickly there.

Thanks to its decades-long local presence, Bosch understands Chinese consumers’ needs. In partnership with WeRide, Bosch successfully brought its Advanced Driving Solution (Level 2++) to series production with Chinese automaker Chery by the end of 2023.

Demand for advanced driver assistance systems that leave drivers in control is particularly strong among Chinese manufacturers. More than half of all new cars sold in China in 2024 featured Level 2 or higher solutions — a figure expected to grow rapidly by the decade’s end.