As per report Global technology and services provider Bosch Group on Wednesday inaugurated the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) with a planned investment of 2.5 million Euros (over Rs 20 crore) over five years.
Meanwhile the mission is to create societal impact through multi-disciplinary interactions with the government, academic, research and industrial collaborators on core challenges in Data Science (DS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Michael Bolle, Member of Bosch's Board of Management said "Artificial Intelligence is a core technology for all areas of connected life from connected mobility to buildings, factories and cities. The expertise of our Indian engineers contributes to expanding the AI skills set of Bosch”.
Accordingly India is one of four locations of Bosch Centre for AI and the company is investing some 300 million euros until 2021 for such centres across the world. "Bosch has funded two important technology areas with Cyber Physical Systems and Data Sciences & AI at IISc (Indian Institute of Science) and IIT-M. Dr Vijendran Venkoparao, Head of technology strategy and university relations at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions said "By working together and conducting aligned R&D activities, they could accelerate major breakthroughs which will have wider societal impact”.
