SAP integrates Nvidia robotics into platform

SAP is extending its work with Nvidia from enterprise AI agents into robotics, according to remarks published on May 18 by Seoul Economic Daily. The newspaper quoted SAP Chief Partner Officer Karl Fahrbach as saying the company plans to integrate Nvidia’s robotics capabilities into SAP’s platform so customers can combine robotics and physical AI services with SAP’s enterprise software. The reported move builds on a broader SAP-Nvidia partnership that SAP outlined at its Sapphire conference in Orlando on May 12. SAP and Nvidia said there that Nvidia’s OpenShell runtime would be embedded in SAP Business AI Platform to help customers build and govern specialized AI agents. ### Which Nvidia technology is SAP already putting into its platform? SAP said on May 12 that it is embedding Nvidia OpenShell, an open-source runtime for developing and deploying autonomous AI agents, into SAP Business AI Platform. Nvidia said the two companies are also co-designing the project, with SAP engineers contributing to the open-source effort. SAP described the arrangement as part of its push to put AI agents inside governed business workflows rather than run them as stand-alone tools. (news.sap.com) SAP CEO Christian Klein said at Sapphire that the company’s new Business AI Platform combines SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Business AI in one environment. SAP said the platform is meant to anchor AI in enterprise data, processes and governance controls. ### Where do robotics fit into that strategy? Seoul Economic Daily reported on May 18 that SAP now wants to connect Nvidia’s robotics stack to SAP enterprise systems used in supply-chain and operations work. (news.sap.com) The newspaper said Fahrbach described the aim as letting customers combine robotics and physical AI services with SAP’s platform. That would extend SAP’s existing effort to move AI agents from software tasks into physical operations. (news.sap.com) SAP and Nvidia had already taken a step in that direction in 2025 with Neura Robotics. SAP said in June 2025 that the three companies were working together to combine SAP business-process intelligence, Neura’s cognitive robots and Nvidia’s Omniverse platform to create what SAP called “autonomous physical agents” connected to enterprise systems. SAP said those systems could use real-time business context from manufacturing, inventory and logistics workflows. (en.sedaily.com) ### What has SAP said about “physical AI” before this report? Philipp Herzig, SAP’s chief technology officer, said in a March 17 feature on SAP’s site that SAP and Nvidia were trying to connect AI to “real-world business operations.” SAP’s architecture materials published in May describe “embodied AI” as the use of agentic AI with cognitive robots to automate physical tasks inside business-process context. SAP has also been building out customer pilots. (news.sap.com) SAP said in November 2025 that early proof-of-concept work in its Project Embodied AI showed up to 50% reductions in unplanned downtime and up to 25% productivity improvement across manufacturing, warehouse automation and quality inspection use cases. SAP repeated those figures in a December 2025 community post describing the same initiative. ### What does this look like inside a customer operation? (news.sap.com) SAP’s own examples point to industrial inspections, warehouse handling and production support. SAP said in March that its work with ANYbotics focused on integrating robotic inspection data into the software systems customers already use, so detected issues can be documented and routed through enterprise processes. A May SAP case study on Martur Fompak described humanoid robots being used in warehouse and line-feeding processes with SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Joule. (news.sap.com) The likely workflow, based on SAP’s product descriptions and prior partnership announcements, is that robotics data feeds into SAP systems used for maintenance, warehousing, asset management or planning, while SAP’s business context helps determine what the machine should do next. SAP has framed that as tying digital process intelligence to physical execution. ### Who else is involved as SAP pushes this further? SAP said on May 12 that its Autonomous Enterprise push includes deeper partnerships with Nvidia, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Palantir. (news.sap.com) The company said the Business AI Platform is the foundation for those integrations. Nvidia said on March 16 that robotics companies including ABB Robotics, FANUC, KUKA, Universal Robots and Yaskawa are building on its physical AI technology. (architecture.learning.sap.com) That wider ecosystem matters because SAP’s plan, as described by Fahrbach in the May 18 report, depends on linking enterprise workflows to robotics systems that are already being developed on Nvidia’s stack. (news.sap.com) May 20 is SAP’s next scheduled Sapphire date in Orlando, according to SAP’s conference materials, and the company has been using the event to add product details and partner announcements around Business AI Platform. SAP’s published Nvidia materials and the May 18 Seoul Economic Daily interview are the clearest sign so far that robotics integration is moving from SAP’s pilot work toward the core platform roadmap. (news.sap.com) (investor.nvidia.com)