Mercedes-Benz's Bengaluru R&D center leads MB.OS and autonomous driving innovations
Mercedes-Benz is turning to Bengaluru for some serious innovation. Its Indian R and D center (now its second-biggest after Germany) is leading the charge on everything from Mercedes's own MB.OS software to self-driving tech and smarter in-car experiences.
Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Chief Technology Officer, Development & Procurement Jorg Burzer says the Bengaluru team has deep experience tackling the problem and is closely involved in building features like speech recognition that copes with regional dialects and accents and MB.OS across autonomous driving, user experience, drive and body functions.
Bengaluru engineers integrate hardware and software
These engineers aren't just coding; they're shaping how hardware and software work together, even working on solid-state batteries.
Thanks to partnerships with companies like NVIDIA, they're also bringing speech AI onto the vehicle itself rather than in the cloud, which cuts latency.
And looking ahead? Mercedes is working on Level 4 robo-limousines (think: almost fully self-driving cars) and exploring partnerships with service providers such as Uber, while a more advanced Level 2++ system hopes to come to Europe at the end of this year or early next, subject to updated regulations, all powered by the brains in Bengaluru.