BMW
In-Car-Gaming with the BMW Group.
21 Oct 2024
In August 2024 the BMW Group, Mattel and AirConsole revealed the new in-car game UNO® Car Party! Find out more about the innovative in-car treat.
BMW 3D printing takes over in production: individual robot grippers play a crucial role.
08 Oct 2024
3D-printed components are being used more and more at the BMW Group and play a crucial role at BMW plants. Find out more.
Humanoid Robots for BMW Group Plant Spartanburg.
11 Sep 2024
At BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, BMW and the California-based company Figure are using humanoid robots to test what the future of production might look like.
Hydrogen Pioneers take collaboration to the next level.
05 Sep 2024
The BMW Group and the Toyota Motor Corporation are pooling their innovative strength and are planning to launch a new generation of fuel cell drive technology on the market in 2028. Read more about the current developments.
Hydrogen research pioneer.
04 Sep 2024
After 45 years in hydrogen research, the BMW Group is taking a leading role in working with this technology. In this article, you will find out more about milestones, premieres, and records.
Charging smarter: tomorrow’s electromobility.
29 Aug 2024
The charging infrastructure is crucial to electromobility – and the BMW Group is proving to be a pioneer in the field within the automotive industry.
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
