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New BMW brand campaign uses dancing octopus to visualise the Heart of Joy central control unit.
Fri Jun 20 08:00:00 CEST 2025 Press Release
With its new brand campaign and “Meet Okto the Octopus” video, BMW provides an unusual insight into the operation of its new Heart of Joy central control unit. The star of the video is an octopus performing a perfectly coordinated underwater choreography – as an analogy for the way the Heart of Joy will intelligently coordinate key driving functions in future BMW vehicles, starting with the Neue Klasse models.
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With its new brand campaign and “Meet Okto the Octopus” video, BMW
provides an unusual insight into the operation of its new Heart of Joy
central control unit. The star of the video is an octopus performing a
perfectly coordinated underwater choreography – as an analogy for the
way the Heart of Joy will intelligently coordinate key driving
functions in future BMW vehicles, starting with the Neue Klasse models.
Munich. A new central control unit called the Heart
of Joy is taking BMW driving dynamics to a new level – from standstill
to the limits. It will make its debut in the BMW Neue Klasse models.
The Heart of Joy combines with the BMW Dynamic Performance Control
software stack to centrally control the powertrain, brakes and
recuperation as well as some steering functions. Compared to previous
systems, the new control unit processes driving information around ten
times faster and responds more directly to the driver than ever
before. The Heart of Joy passed its first public performance test at
Auto Shanghai, as part of the BMW Vision Driving Experience.
The “Meet Okto the Octopus” video translates the new “superbrain’s” power into cinematic poetry. The star of the video is an octopus. A fascinating animal that uses a decentralised nervous system to enable independent control of individual parts of its body. Much like a modern car has separate control units for braking, acceleration and steering. In the new BMW brand video, this scenario is reversed: the octopus is given a central nervous system and then moves in a synchronised, precise and controlled manner to perform an underwater waltz – while simultaneously avoiding hazards.
The video’s concept and implementation are the work of the Jung von
Matt Hamburg agency. The video will be
shown online and in cinemas worldwide.
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