NVIDIA & SAP Partnership Will Bring AI Agents to the Physical World

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As robots increasingly make their way to the largest enterprises' manufacturing plants and warehouses, the need for access to critical business and operational data has never been more crucial. At its Sapphire conference, SAP announced it is collaborating with NEURA Robotics and NVIDIA to enable its SAP Joule agents to connect enterprise data and processes with NEURA's advanced cognitive robots. The integration will enable robots to support tasks including adaptive manufacturing, autonomous replenishment, compliance monitoring and predictive maintenance. Using the Mega NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint, SAP customers will be able to simulate and validate large robotic fleets in digital twins before deploying them in real-world facilities.

Virtual Assistants Become Physical Helpers
AI agents are traditionally confined to the digital world, which means they're unable to take actionable steps for physical tasks and do real-world work in warehouses, factories and other industrial workplaces. SAP's collaboration with NVIDIA and NEURA Robotics shows how enterprises will be able to use Joule to plan and simulate complex and dynamic scenarios that include physical AI and autonomous humanoid robots to address critical planning, safety and project requirements, streamline operations and embody business intelligence in the physical world.




Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management: NVIDIA, SAP Tackle Complex Challenges
Today's supply chains have become more fragile and complex with ever-evolving constraints around consumer, economic, political and environmental dimensions. The partnership between NVIDIA and SAP aims to enhance supply chain planning capabilities by integrating NVIDIA cuOpt technology—for real-time route optimization—with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to enable customers to plan and simulate the most complex and dynamic scenarios for more rapid and confident decision-making.

By extending SAP IBP with NVIDIA's highly scalable, GPU-powered platform, customers can accelerate time-to-value by facilitating the management of larger and more intricate models without sacrificing runtime. This groundbreaking collaboration will empower businesses to address unique planning requirements, streamline operations and drive better business outcomes.

Supporting Supply Chains With AI and Humanoid Robots
SAP Chief Technology Officer Philipp Herzig offered a preview of the technology integration in a keynote demonstration at SAP Sapphire in Orlando, showing the transformative potential for physical AI in businesses in how Joule—SAP's generative AI co-pilot—works with data from the real world in combination with humanoid robots. "Robots and autonomous agents are at the heart of the next wave of industrial AI, seamlessly connecting people, data, and processes to unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation," said Herzig. "SAP, NVIDIA and NEURA Robotics share a vision for uniting AI and robotics to improve safety, efficiency and productivity across industries."

With the integration of the Mega NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint, enterprises can harness physical AI and digital twins to enable new AI agents that can deliver real-time, contextual insights and automate routine tasks. The collaboration between the three companies allows NEURA robots to see, learn and adapt in real time—whether restocking shelves, inspecting infrastructure or resolving supply chain disruptions.



SAP Joule AI Agents are deployed directly onto NEURA's cognitive robots, enabling real-time decision-making and the execution of physical tasks such as inventory audits or equipment repairs. The robots learn continuously in physically accurate digital twins, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and technologies, and using business-critical data from SAP applications, while the Mega NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint helps evaluate and validate deployment options and large-scale task interactions.

Showcasing Joule's Data-Driven Insights on NEURA Robots
The technology demonstration showcases the abilities of NEURA robots to handle tasks guided by Joule's data-driven insights. Businesses bridging simulation-to-reality deployments can use the integrated technology stack to provide zero-shot navigation and inference to address defect rates and production line inefficiencies without interrupting operations.



Herzig showed how Joule can direct a NEURA 4NE1 robot to inspect a machine in the showroom, powered by AI agents, scanning equipment and triggering an SAP Asset Performance management alert before a failure disrupts operations.

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[lexluthermiester]

This seems like it could be very good, but also very bad. We need regulations for things like this.

 

[blinnbanir]

We had all an Employee meeting last week. They announced that the function I do will be going to AI. Companies are all about profit in today's World. They said that out of 106 in my department that only 34 out of 106 would be needed. Guess what platform we use? SAP is right. This is bad for many office applications as SAP is almost defacto for huge Corporations.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Pretty soon your AI "Doctor" will be breaking the news to you that you got three months left to live.....what a glorious future

 

[Hecate91]

Pretty soon your AI "Doctor" will be breaking the news to you that you got three months left to live.....what a glorious future

It seems like they're using the movie Elysium as a guide to screw over everyone. AI could've been a helpful tool if it weren't being used to replace people in the workforce.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

It seems like they're using the movie Elysium as a guide to screw over everyone. AI could've been a helpful tool if it weren't being used to replace people in the workforce.

The only reason they'd made the investment would be because it's going to save them money and that always, always means firing employees to save that money.

 

[Steevo]

We had all an Employee meeting last week. They announced that the function I do will be going to AI. Companies are all about profit in today's World. They said that out of 106 in my department that only 34 out of 106 would be needed. Guess what platform we use? SAP is right. This is bad for many office applications as SAP is almost defacto for huge Corporations.

That sucks, not sure what field you work in, but AI is just the beginning. We are on the precipice of a change to how we live. I don't know how it's going to end but there will be a hard cultural change to get through and a lot of people will not have gainful employment if we allow the embracement of AI everything.

 

[blueturtle]

Im so done with Nvidia

Pretty much at the point nothing Nvidia in my home ever again. Just wait till the Matrix or Judgment Day shows up!

IBM & Musk to save the day lol......

 

[Vayra86]

We had all an Employee meeting last week. They announced that the function I do will be going to AI. Companies are all about profit in today's World. They said that out of 106 in my department that only 34 out of 106 would be needed. Guess what platform we use? SAP is right. This is bad for many office applications as SAP is almost defacto for huge Corporations.

So adjust and organize.

Its a complete illusion that there is no 'work', even in a similar field. But yes, in a fast changing world and especially business area you can't expect to be able to keep sitting still I think. Gotta evolve with it. How useful is it to keep doing work manually when it can be automated effectively (mind, the jury isn't out on that entirely, certainly not for all fields). Also, its likely there's going to be a surge, and then a reality check. We're going to have AI fail at certain tasks, and realize we need (more) human oversight. New jobs created.

People who think AI will kill jobs haven't understood or looked at history. Unemployment rates aren't going up, they go down or stagnate at some sub 10%. Alternatively, we work shorter work weeks. And yes, perhaps AI will result in a net amount of more free time: that's the time you can then use to invest in other things, and deploy stuff outside of work.

It would really help a lot of everyone joined a union again, so you can also enforce companies to pay you adequately so you can live off working a bit less. Here in the EU... we figured that out a long time ago, and that realization is coming back as well as the corporate squeeze is felt. Yes, you need community and collective action to keep things in good order. Individualism is the path to getting divided and conquered.

 

[Caring1]

So adjust and organize.

Some people call that prepping.

 

[blinnbanir]

So adjust and organize.

Its a complete illusion that there is no 'work', even in a similar field. But yes, in a fast changing world and especially business area you can't expect to be able to keep sitting still I think. Gotta evolve with it. How useful is it to keep doing work manually when it can be automated effectively (mind, the jury isn't out on that entirely, certainly not for all fields). Also, its likely there's going to be a surge, and then a reality check. We're going to have AI fail at certain tasks, and realize we need (more) human oversight. New jobs created.

People who think AI will kill jobs haven't understood or looked at history. Unemployment rates aren't going up, they go down or stagnate at some sub 10%. Alternatively, we work shorter work weeks. And yes, perhaps AI will result in a net amount of more free time: that's the time you can then use to invest in other things, and deploy stuff outside of work.

It would really help a lot of everyone joined a union again, so you can also enforce companies to pay you adequately so you can live off working a bit less. Here in the EU... we figured that out a long time ago, and that realization is coming back as well as the corporate squeeze is felt. Yes, you need community and collective action to keep things in good order. Individualism is the path to getting divided and conquered.

There are other things I can do to make money. It is sad though because you are asking people that have 25+ years of experience working for one Company to learn new roles in an environment where Jobs are not what they used to be. NA will implode before what is happening in the EU comes here.

 

[Vayra86]

There are other things I can do to make money. It is sad though because you are asking people that have 25+ years of experience working for one Company to learn new roles in an environment where Jobs are not what they used to be. NA will implode before what is happening in the EU comes here.

Its possibly similar to what artisans experienced when everything went to factories...

 

[mechtech]

hmmmm like this but more subtle??

 

[Hecate91]

hmmmm like this but more subtle??

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Replace the eye with a glowing Nvidia logo.