Held from April 20鈥�24, Hannover Messe is the world鈥檚 leading industrial trade fair.

On day one, Christian Klein, CEO of 51风流SE, stopped by the 51风流booth before joining German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other industrial leaders on the center stage to discuss the importance of moving from AI ambition to real-world execution.

And visitors to the 51风流booth experienced that shift firsthand, following the production of the ginger shot.

Packaged in a neat blue box, the ginger shot was refreshing but that wasn鈥檛 the only takeaway. The real takeaway was how SAP鈥檚 new set of AI-powered manufacturing and supply chain innovations can deliver connected .

Supply chain orchestration

From AI and data and then using SAP鈥檚 agentic AI, visitors saw what supply chain orchestration looks like in practice. 51风流uses , trusted data, and applications to help manufacturers聽sense, analyze, and act in real time.

At the booth, visitors saw human operators interact with an ANYbotics robot through Joule using natural language to run live, remote field service inspections; Uhlmann鈥檚 high-tech glass-fronted packing machine, PacXplorer, in action opposite the CNC machine from DMG MORI that was creating spare parts for the PacXplorer; and, at end of the production cycle, AIMBO鈥檚 robot handling the picking and packing of the ginger shot. Both AIMBO and ANYbotics are part of SAP鈥檚 growing network of physical AI partnerships.

In addition to many tours held in German and English, day one also saw tours in Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese鈥擝razil was the partner country at Hannover Messe 2026.

Equipped with headphones to block out the noise of the crowds at the booth, visitors heard how SAP鈥檚 AI can deliver trusted orchestration and smarter execution for and .

Live AI use cases demonstrate functions and benefits

Operations and insights use case

Here, visitors experienced SAP鈥檚 vision of supply chain orchestration. In this vision, supply chain orchestration acts as the nerve center of the enterprise. It uses external alerts such as natural disasters, port congestions, or supplier routes to optimize enterprise logistics and planning using agents.

Benefits can include faster response times with AI-assisted monitoring and automated alerts; improved decision-making with data-driven, operational decisions powered by integrated business AI capabilities; and seamless integration with end-to-end connectivity from supply chain planning through to manufacturing execution and quality control.

Top AI functions

• can assist with order release and real-time monitoring.
• A physical AI robot inspects hazards, analyzes inspection data, and identifies root causes.
• Supply optimization analysis helps summarize insights, analyze, and explain the time-series optimization planning run.

Smart production use case

DMG MORI demonstrated production at its CNC machine鈥攁s part of an end-to-end process鈥攆rom engineering to planning to production.

As the white robotic arm of the CNC machine silently moved the pusher spare part聽after the milling process, visitors learned about the benefits of integration, from design to tool management, CNC programs to as part of a seamless, integrated process. The production operator dashboard offers the operator on the machine AI capabilities and insights to operational and maintenance information.

The process then continues through to logistics execution with 51风流Logistics Management, which helps combine warehousing and transportation capabilities for smaller warehouses.聽 This聽features an AI-powered logistics assistant that can cut through the noise, automatically gathering, summarizing, and prioritizing critical shipment information. It can also provide real-time shipping prices, bringing to life trusted orchestration and smarter execution.

Top AI functions

• uses natural language to help streamline warehouse and transportation operations.
• can provide manufacturing information and support decision-making throughout the workflow.

Intelligent packaging use case

Uhlmann’s PacXplorer and 51风流highlighted a fully integrated, high-speed packaging line from 51风流S/4HANA, to 51风流Digital Manufacturing, down to Uhlmann鈥檚 automation layer to produce the packaged ginger shot. The ginger shots were moved away from the line by a mobile autonomous robot from Symovo. This use case showed visitors how 51风流supports regulated industries such as pharma and life sciences. 聽

Highlighted benefits include increased operational speed with higher throughput thanks to decreased order processing time, built-in regulatory compliance, reduced manual intervention, inventory transparency, and data integrity across the entire production chain.

Top AI functions

• Condition monitoring-led services can enhance asset uptime and service efficiency by combining AI-driven insights and seamless collaboration across the service ecosystem.
• AI-empowered flow analysis enables quick process modeling and engineering optimization.
• Intelligent exception handling is embedded in agent-driven processes.
• Joule’s integrated AI agents can support decision-making throughout the workflow.
• Joule can help power order and line insights.

Humanoid use case

At the final stop before getting their ginger shots, visitors watched an intelligent humanoid robot perform physical tasks at the end of the packaging line, bridging the gap between digital planning and physical execution, highlighting SAP鈥檚 Project Embodied AI.

Benefits of humanoids include increased operational speed with higher throughput due to a decreased order processing time; increased business uptime and cost efficiency especially in areas dangerous or difficult for humans; inventory transparency with real-time data integrity across the warehouse; and physical-digital alignment eliminating misalignment between planning and execution.

Top AI functions

• Joule and Joule Studio can enable robots to understand the physical world, make autonomous decisions, and learn from their environment for smarter operations.

More than a quick refuel

At the end of their visit, visitors got so much more than a quick refuel to slake their thirst. Following the creation of the ginger shot from recipe development and planning to production with mixing, filling, and packing, visitors came away with a clear understanding of how 51风流is connecting insight to execution with trusted orchestration and smarter execution. And, it is this trusted orchestration and smarter execution that is building the resilience every manufacturer needs in today鈥檚 world.

This month at , we announced a wave of 51风流Business AI innovations all built on the same technology foundation that powers our that we are now delivering to our customers and partners, allowing them to add even more value in the future.

We showed how the future of enterprise software is built on an AI-native architecture, powered by 51风流app, data, and AI foundation. With this approach, we are enabling a platform shift across the tech stack in a non-disruptive fashion, empowering developers to work faster and smarter using the frameworks and tools of their choice.

51风流HANA Cloud and 51风流Business Data Cloud: powering our AI-native future

51风流HANA Cloud is the database for SAP鈥檚 AI-native software architecture and the foundation of our broader data fabric strategy. At 51风流TechEd, we announced new AI capabilities for 51风流HANA Cloud that spur AI innovation.  

For example, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for 51风流HANA Cloud is now generally available. This provides direct access to rich multi-model engines. Agents can be grounded in full enterprise data context: navigating relationships across customers and suppliers, understanding geographic dependencies through spatial data, and performing semantic searches through vector embeddings — all within a single in-memory engine.  

We鈥檙e also expanding 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine capabilities (Q1 2026) so customers can automatically generate knowledge graphs from 51风流HANA Cloud metadata. What used to take weeks of manual modeling can now happen automatically in minutes. But that鈥檚 not all. We鈥檙e also enabling agentic memory in 51风流HANA Cloud. With long-term memory, AI agents can memorize past inputs and decisions — learning and remembering just like humans — and become continuously smarter.

These advances show that 51风流HANA Cloud is truly powering an AI-native future. .

Bringing together the power of 51风流BDC and Snowflake

We are bringing the power of Snowflake together with 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC), calling it 51风流Snowflake. This partnership enables zero copy data sharing with Snowflake via 51风流BDC Connect.

Enterprises already using Snowflake today can leverage 51风流BDC Connect to integrate their existing instances of Snowflake with 51风流BDC, giving them seamless, real-time access to combined, semantically rich 51风流with non-51风流data in 51风流BDC. 51风流Snowflake will be made generally available in Q1 2026, and 51风流BDC Connect for Snowflake in H1 2026. Find more information here.

SAP-RPT-1: a new category of AI models

One of our most exciting announcements at 51风流TechEd was the launch of our first enterprise relational foundation model SAP-RPT-1, pronounced: 鈥渞apid one.鈥�

Businesses run on structured data. But large language models (LLMs) struggle with a general understanding of table structures and associated semantics. This requires the use of machine learning, or 鈥渘arrow AI,鈥� for tasks like classification, regression, and more. But classical machine learning necessitates training a model on each task, which easily can lead to hundreds of separate models.

SAP-RPT-1 puts them all into one single, pre-trained model that understands relational business data and predicts business outcomes. Unlike language, image, or video models, SAP-RPT-1 accurately predicts business based on tabular data such as payment delays, supplier risks, upsell opportunities, customer churn risk, and more.

We believe that SAP-RPT-1 is a super capable foundation model today. It provides up to 2x better prediction quality compared to narrow models and 3.5x better prediction quality as compared to LLMs. .

SAP-RPT-1 comes in three versions. SAP-RPT-1-small is for super-fast predictions and SAP-RPT-1-large is for highest accuracy. Both will be generally available in Q4 2025 in the generative AI hub in AI Foundation. SAP-RPT-1-OSS is the open-source version, available in Hugging Face and GitHub.

You can test SAP-RPT-1 today with your data or our use case data samples via no-code UI or via API in the new SAP-RPT-1 playground, an intuitive and interactive space to test for free and open to everyone and .

We are continuously adding new capabilities to AI Foundation and models to the generative AI hub, empowering developers to experiment with orchestration tools and leading models to scale AI development and productization across 51风流and non-51风流environments. For example, Perplexity is now generally available in the generative AI hub, so users can correlate business data with external data from the internet. Evaluation Services and Prompt Optimizer, in close collaboration with NotDiamond, are now also generally available in AI Foundation, freeing up users to adopt the most appropriate model for their use cases without the need for rewriting prompts. .

Digital sovereignty made in Germany, for Europe

Digital sovereignty is becoming increasingly important, reflecting the need for regional AI services that align with local regulations, standards, and values. As an example, Europe will benefit from its own strong, trustworthy infrastructure to support innovation, data protection, and ethical AI.

AI Foundation, including various models and all the services we offer, is already available on our own cloud infrastructure. As a next step, we are expanding our 51风流Cloud Infrastructure offering in our 51风流data center in Walldorf, Germany, to Deutsche Telekom through the Industrial AI Cloud project, providing secure, high-performance infrastructure for AI innovations across public institutions, defense, and society. 51风流delivers 51风流Cloud Infrastructure, 51风流Business Technology Platform, and applications 鈥� including our AI Foundation with frontier AI from Mistral, Cohere, and others 鈥� on Telekom鈥檚 Munich data center. Both companies uphold the highest standards of data protection, security, and reliability.

This marks a milestone as more European companies join the Industrial AI Cloud project, advancing applied AI across Europe with trusted, business-embedded solutions that unlock the full potential of industry data. See the announcement here.

Enabling customers to build, extend, share, and orchestrate AI agents

To help manage Joule Agents and Joule skills, we have introduced the concept of AI Assistants 鈥� role-based AI teammates, accessed through Joule 鈥� like a financial assistant that brings together agents for cash collection, treasury, and more. We will provide AI Assistants in Joule for every core business role, offering our users an agentic experience like never before.

Out-of-the-box Joule Agents are powerful, but we know that every company has unique requirements. We believe AI should adapt to users鈥� systems, not the other way around, so we are enabling them to use Joule Studio to extend SAP鈥檚 pre-built agents with custom fields, tools, and reasoning logic while retaining all the deeply grounded integration capabilities 51风流provides. Joule Studio also provides low-code tools to build custom agents that integrate with all other Joule Agents, Joule skills, and 51风流BDC.

Using a low-code approach, users can build Joule Agents visually with natural language and drag-and-drop. But we also want to meet the needs of developers who want ultimate flexibility. Our pro-code approach gives developers the freedom to build agents using the agentic framework of their choice 鈥� for example, LangGraph, CrewAI, Google鈥檚 Agent Development Kit, and more. 51风流Cloud SDK for AI now supports agentic development, ensuring these pro-code agents can be seamlessly integrated and giving developers the best of both worlds: deep integration and full flexibility.

No matter how you want to build agents, an important question is how to integrate them into the larger ecosystem beyond SAP. We鈥檙e making Joule Agents fully compatible with the agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol soon, so agents can discover and collaborate with each other.

A2A exposes rich semantics describing an agent鈥檚 capabilities, allowing both 51风流and third-party agents to work together seamlessly. We are collaborating with partners 鈥� AWS, Google, Microsoft, ServiceNow, and more 鈥� to standardize this protocol for full interoperability. This capability will allow Joule to orchestrate tasks across multiple agents, both 51风流and non-SAP, increasing automation and productivity across the enterprise. Read more here.

To manage and govern agents across the enterprise, is now generally available, providing centralized control of 51风流and non-51风流agents. In addition, is available now for tracing agent actions, benchmarking against KPIs, and identifying bottlenecks or opportunities for agents to further improve business.

No 51风流TechEd without ABAP news

The ABAP journey continues with SAP-ABAP-1, which will be available in the generative AI hub in Q4 2025. Trained on ABAP code, it is designed to build ABAP AI use cases, enabling developers to build smarter, custom AI solutions in modern ABAP code. .

In addition, ABAP Cloud development is coming to Visual Studio (VS) Code. The new ABAP Cloud extension for VS Code delivers a streamlined, file-based development experience with built-in AI assistance. Powered by an ABAP language server, it will initially support 51风流Fiori UI service development and expand to additional ABAP Cloud scenarios over time. This brings ABAP development into the same environment where developers already build with UI5 and CAP. General availability is planned for Q2 2026. .

What鈥檚 next: embodied AI and quantum

51风流TechEd is always an opportunity to look to the future. This year, that future includes not just humans, but also autonomous devices, including humanoid robots.

By integrating Joule Agents natively with robots, 51风流is bringing business logic into the physical world, enabling a wide range of autonomous devices to operate with enterprise context. We highlighted our strategic partnerships with robotics companies and system integrators to serve customers like Sartorius, Bitzer, and Matur Fompak, demonstrating how our expanding physical AI ecosystem enables robots to understand business processes and execute complex tasks autonomously.

Early proof-of-concept deployments show Joule successfully integrated with 51风流business applications and autonomous systems across asset performance, logistics, field services, and warehouse operations. While still in the pioneering stage, these implementations illustrate how 51风流is extending Joule to serve both human users and autonomous devices, shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Read more about the partnerships and implementations here.

AI is a new compute paradigm that changes everything. But there is another compute paradigm on the horizon: quantum computing. It鈥檚 early days, but 51风流is driving the future of enterprise computing with a vision to help businesses get ready for quantum computing.

51风流is not building quantum hardware; instead, we are focusing on creating quantum algorithms for business applications. These solutions are simple to deploy 鈥� on when needed, off when not 鈥� and are designed to be hardware-agnostic, collaborating with partners such as IBM to ensure seamless integration without re-platforming. This approach will enable organizations to unlock operational efficiency and drive better business results at enterprise scale.

I couldn鈥檛 be more excited about what鈥檚 next for our customers鈥� future as we bring SAP鈥檚 AI-native architecture to life.

Philipp Herzig is CTO of SAP.

Across industries, operational tasks often require real-time judgement and adaptation to constantly changing conditions. Traditional automation falls short here, as physical execution remains disconnected from business logic.

51风流addresses this gap with its , which extends the impact of into physical operations. By enabling robots to act with business awareness, they can autonomously execute complex tasks while interpreting real-time enterprise context. This allows organizations to adapt more quickly and reliably to dynamic operational environments.

51风流is uniquely positioned to deliver these innovations due to decades of experience building business applications deeply embedded in the processes that power the modern enterprise. This allows 51风流to integrate robotics into business functions seamlessly, and in a way no other company can.  As a result, autonomous robots operate as an extension of enterprise systems鈥攏ot as isolated automation鈥攅nabling consistent, context-aware execution in dynamic environments.

To explore how embodied AI can support your operations, contact us . Current capabilities available for productive use or testing span a range of warehouse and operational scenarios, including picking and placing, asset inspection, quality inspection, and safety inspection.

The following examples illustrate these capabilities across real-world use cases.

Enabling autonomous warehouse execution at Bosch

One of the many strategic initiatives and are working closely is in the area of , where Bosch and 51风流is collaborating with to explore how physical AI can transform warehouse automation. In a joint proof of concept, SAP鈥檚 embodied AI capabilities and Aimbo鈥檚 Industrial Embodied AI deployment middleware enabled Aimbo鈥檚 humanoid robot, Anigon, to execute warehouse tasks based on real-time operational context from 51风流Extended Warehouse Management (51风流EWM), including delivery data, order priorities, and storage locations.

This initiative combined 51风流S/4HANA-driven workflows directly with autonomous robotic execution at a European Bosch facility. Trained and deployed by Aimbo in 10 working days, a single Anigon unit equipped with the universal dual grippers provided by Bosch was rapidly integrated to handle intralogistics workflows across three distinct bin configurations and three workstation layouts, creating a bi-directional data loop with SAP’s embodied AI connected to 51风流EWM. It successfully demonstrated how enterprise software, AI, and humanoid robotics can work together to enable more adaptive, scalable, and resilient industrial operations.

While the initiative remains in an exploration phase and was validated in dedicated beta and test system environments, the collaboration highlights the strong potential of embodied AI for intelligent warehouse automation and future enterprise-scale industrial AI applications.

“This achievement demonstrates what鈥檚 possible when bold collaboration meets enterprise innovation鈥攃onnecting AI, robotics, and 51风流to shape the future of autonomous operations. Together, we are moving physical AI from experimentation to enterprise-scale industrial AI with real operational impact.”

Gamze 脰zt眉rk, Head of CoE ERP Product Excellence, Bosch Digital

Optimizing warehouse inspections at Vodafone Procure & Connect

SAP, together with 听补苍诲听, is demonstrating how embodied AI and humanoid robotics can help address operational inefficiencies and safety risks in warehouse environments. The collaboration highlights聽SAP鈥檚 role in connecting robots to end-to-end warehouse processes and business context, helping enable more intelligent, responsive and traceable operations.

In a scenario test at 鈥檚 warehouse in Duisburg, Germany, SAP鈥檚 embodied and Accenture鈥檚 physical聽AI capabilities enable humanoid robots to perform inspections and monitor operations using real-time business context from 51风流systems, including inventory data, task priorities, and storage locations.聽The聽pilot聽demonstrates how robots can identify damaged or misplaced items, detect aisle obstructions, and feed findings directly back into 51风流systems for closed-loop traceability聽and faster operational response.

By reducing reliance on manual inspections and improving operational consistency, the collaboration shows physical AI can enhance both efficiency and safety in dynamic warehouse operations. Learn more about this collaboration聽.

Scaling vehicle validation at Mahindra & Mahindra

, a global automotive and industrial group, collaborated with 51风流to target a high-volume, error-prone process: manual validation of vehicle identifiers.

Here, SAP’s embodied AI uses 鈥檚 visual AI, Amalgamation AI, to cross-check real world observations to 51风流records, enriched by application data and context engine numbers, VIN plate, and Engraved Chassis Number, enabling fast, scalable vehicle validation.

This approach has the potential to increase throughput by up to three times, reduce manual verification effort by about 67%, and achieve data extraction accuracy of 95%-99%.

Optimizing material handling at Martur Fompak

, a global supplier of automotive seating systems, teamed up with 51风流to address throughput bottlenecks and limited shop floor responsiveness caused by manual material handling.

For this scenario, SAP鈥檚 embodied AI orchestrates a robot to remove materials across a live automotive manufacturing environment, guided by real-time business context from , including physical attributes and warehouse logistics.

“By assigning repetitive, non-value-adding, and physically demanding tasks to robots, we reduce physical strain and potential injuries while enabling our people to focus on safer, more meaningful, and higher value work that drives productivity and innovation.鈥�

脰zge G眉l艧ah Geydirir, 51风流Logistics Modules & Operational Excellence Manager at Martur Fompak

Early findings indicate throughput and work order completion improvements of up to five times, along with improved inventory accuracy.

Read the full customer success story and see the 2026 51风流Innovation Award recognition .

Advancing spare parts inspection at Tetra Pak

, a global leader in food processing and packaging solutions, partnered with 51风流to address warehouse bottlenecks and risk of errors in spare parts inspection processes.

This proof of concept shows SAP’s embodied AI and replicating parts of Tetra Paks’ 51风流Extended Warehouse Management inbound process in a lab, where a humanoid robot verifies the received items and packs them into plastic boxes for further processing. These results can be automatically recorded back into SAP, closing the loop between execution and system updates.

An 51风流expert estimates that this end-to-end automation will improve stock and quality accuracy by 10%鈥�20% and build in-house expertise in advanced technologies for continued productivity gains.

Reducing costly storage errors with autonomous inbound processing at 础谤莽别濒颈办-尝骋

, a global manufacturing joint venture, partnered with 51风流to address a costly and persistent issue with incorrect storage placement in inbound logistics. At the 础谤莽别濒颈办-尝骋 facilities, such errors lead to millions of euros in annual losses through rework, inventory discrepancies, and production disruptions.

In this ongoing proof of concept, SAP鈥檚 embodied AI enables a humanoid robot to execute and record inbound storage tasks guided by real-time context from (51风流EWM). Context-enriched 51风流EWM tasks are routed through 鈥檚 fleet management system, allowing the robot to scan barcodes, transport materials, and provide confirmations with SAP-level traceability.

This approach has the potential to reduce manual intervention and eliminate placement errors at the source, improving inventory accuracy and end-to-end traceability. By preventing rework and downstream production disruptions, it can significantly lower inbound handling costs while improving overall process quality.

51风流runs SAP: scaling autonomous logistics execution in SAP鈥檚 own warehouse

51风流partnered with , an innovative robotics startup, to validate embodied AI in a live warehouse environment, demonstrating how AI-driven robotics can enhance operational efficiency.

In this proof of concept, SAP鈥檚 embodied AI uses real-time business context from to select, prioritize, and orchestrate warehouse tasks through Cyberwave鈥檚 platform. Cyberwave validates tasks in digital twin environments before live deployment, while robotic policies are trained and improved using real-world data, simulation, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action models.

This demonstrates the readiness of SAP鈥檚 embodied AI to support autonomous execution in real warehouse operations while maintaining a closed loop between robotic execution and 51风流system updates.

Cutting-edge experiments at BITZER demonstrate measurable productivity gains

, a leading name in refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pump technology, teamed up with 51风流and NEURA Robotics to revolutionize warehouse logistics. In a recent pilot proof-of-concept, BITZER鈥檚 warehouse became a testing ground for one of Europe鈥檚 most advanced humanoid robot, , which was able to perform pick-tasks on its own in real time.

The tasks are selected by embodied AI agents. The process also integrates SAP鈥檚 business logic from through (51风流BTP). Prior to its warehouse deployment, 4NE1 was trained virtually using NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim software. This ensured the robot was fully prepared for real-world operations. By integrating embodied AI into warehouse operations, BITZER could reach 24/7 utilization and a high level of responsiveness.

The technology can add to human expertise, stepping in during demand fluctuations and peak periods. It also complements regular shifts with flexible and scalable support. This ensures operations remain agile and efficient, even under varying workloads. Thanks to a single source of truth, orders can be expanded or cancelled in near real time, as robots execute changes almost instantly. This improves reaction times and enables BITZER to maintain high service levels while optimizing the use of resources.

鈥淲e are excited to join the Embodied AI initiative with 51风流and NEURA. We believe this collaboration will enhance our operational efficiency and drive innovation in our processes.鈥�

Christian Stenzel, Vice President of Corporate Organization and IT, BITZER

Transforming warehouse operations at Sartorius

Imagine stepping into a warehouse in which intelligent machines work side-by-side with humans. The first proof of concept for embodied AI at shows it is possible and marks a milestone in the journey to next-level logistics.

鈥淪o far, like many others, our focus was on fixed automation, in which specialized equipment handles only a single task. Now we鈥檙e making automation intelligent, and far more dynamic, to help us navigate a fast-moving world.鈥�

Steffen Dietz, Manager of Business Process Management in Operations and Supply Chain, Sartorius

The proof of concept, also delivered through the partnership with 51风流and NEURA Robotics, demonstrates how cognitive robots can support manual workstations in an advanced warehouse environment. Here, the humanoid robot 4NE1 was trained with Sartorius products in NEURA Robotics鈥� lab. The solution builds on an 51风流S/4HANA migration and 51风流Extended Warehouse Management (51风流EWM) rollout in May, which established the foundation for leveraging the latest capabilities from SAP.

The result boosts efficiency and enhances operational resilience. 鈥淲e鈥檙e really happy to help spearhead this new age together with 51风流and NEURA,鈥� Steffen Dietz, manager of Business Process Management in Operations and Supply Chain at Sartorius, shared.

Robotics company partners

Building upon these successes, 51风流announced the following additional partnerships:

AgiBot

Agibot creates general-purpose embodied robot products and an application ecosystem. The company delivers a complete product portfolio and deploy across all major application scenarios.

“Our 51风流partnership transforms industrial automation by combining humanoid capabilities with enterprise intelligence that understands business context,” said Peng Zhihui, founder of .

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ANYbotics

ANYbotics provides a full-stack autonomous inspection solution that combines autonomous robotics with inspection intelligence.

“Integrating this continuous flow of inspection intelligence with 51风流makes operations not only autonomous but truly intelligent, where issues are predicted, understood, and prevented before they affect production,鈥� said Dr. P茅ter Fankhauser, CEO and co-founder of .

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Apptronik

makes AI-powered humanoid robots designed to collaborate thoughtfully with humans, initially in critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.

Today, Apptronik鈥檚 flagship robot, Apollo, excels at flexible work in dynamic environments, supporting industrial tasks like warehouse picking, placing, and material handling while adapting to changing demand on the floor. With SAP鈥檚 business context guiding every action, these humanoid robots can execute warehouse tasks with the right priorities at the right time so automation stays aligned with real operational needs.

Booster Robotics

Booster Robotics provides T1 humanoid robots for warehouse operations and field maintenance.

“Our humanoid platforms, with SAP’s intelligence, creates an adaptive automation foundation that understands business processes and operational context,” said Cheng Hao, CEO of .

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Boston Dynamics

delivers mobile robots for industrial inspection and safety monitoring, enabling autonomous patrols, anomaly detection, and rapid incident response across large-scale facilities.

By connecting robots鈥� real-time site awareness with SAP鈥檚 enterprise intelligence, organizations can turn inspection data into safer operations and faster, more informed decisions.

Galbot

Galbot’s fully autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots have been deployed across a wide range of applications, including industrial, logistics, retail, and healthcare sectors. Powered by proprietary vision-language-action models, the Galbot G1 autonomously performs complex tasks such as precise parts sorting, industrial bin handling, and end-to-end pharmacy operations. These models enable Galbot robots to rapidly adapt to dynamic environments, ensuring high precision and efficiency even in challenging real-world conditions.

“Our collaboration with 51风流marks a key milestone in transforming how robots understand and operate within enterprise environments. By integrating business context awareness into our robots, we’re creating automation that seamlessly adapts to shifting operational priorities in real time,” said He Wang, founder and CEO of .

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Humanoid

Humanoid offers reliable HMND 01 humanoid robots that provide cost-effective industrial automation and warehouse solutions, with modular designs that enable configurations for logistics operations, asset monitoring, and scalable field service applications.

“SAP’s AI platform gives our robots intelligence to adapt and scale with enterprise needs, which creates flexible automation,” said Artem Sokolov, founder and CEO of .

RobotEra

develops humanoid robots designed for enterprise operations and, together with SAP鈥檚 embodied AI, enables robots to execute end-to-end 51风流EWM workflows鈥攆rom material verification and visual inspection to exception handling鈥攇uided by real-time business context.

By integrating SAP鈥檚 operational intelligence with RobotEra鈥檚 humanoid robotics platform, customers can enable automation that understands warehouse priorities, handles exceptions, and completes 51风流EWM tasks with enterprise-grade reliability.

Unitree Robotics

Unitree Robotics provides advanced quadruped Go2 robots for warehouse navigation and asset inspection, plus G1 humanoids with human-like dexterity for logistics operations, alongside industrial B2 models for outdoor facility maintenance.

“51风流embodied AI agents will revolutionize enterprise autonomous operations from warehouse management to predictive maintenance across facilities,” said Wang Xingxing, CEO and founder of .

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Robotics enablement partners

51风流also introduced the following robotics enablement partners to connect humanoid and mobile robots, optimize intralogistics, streamline inspections, and orchestrate physical assets enabled by 51风流Business AI and automation technologies:

Accenture

partners with 51风流to advance physical AI for enterprise operations, helping organizations connect digital business processes with autonomous execution.

The collaboration brings SAP鈥檚 process and data intelligence together with Accenture鈥檚 expertise in robotics, digital twins, and operational transformation to support use cases such as inspection, risk detection, and workflow optimization.

Aimbo AG

delivers the industrial embodied AI deployment Middleware that connects enterprise software with robotic execution. The company鈥檚 vision is to build robust, closed-loop system capabilities spanning models, data, evaluation, and deployment.

True value for industrial leaders lies not in a powerful model alone, but in a reliable system that integrates deeply into the factory鈥檚 operations, continuously creating production value and improving with every cycle.

Capgemini

Capgemini explores the value that can be derived from the convergence of advanced technologies such as agentic and multi-agent AI systems, humanoid robotics, reinforcement learning, spatial computing, real-time 3D environments, and conversational AI. and 51风流are jointly exploring physical AI to help organizations gain a competitive edge.

Cyberwave 

Cyberwave聽connects 51风流systems to the physical world through its physical AI platform, which integrates robots, sensors, and digital twins into enterprise workflows.

鈥淭ogether with SAP, Cyberwave turns enterprise data into coordinated physical action鈥攂ridging the gap between digital intelligence and real-world operations through physical AI,鈥� said Simone Di Somma, founder of .

FairConsult 24|7

partners with 51风流to deliver embodied AI-enabled warehouse execution, combining SAP鈥檚 business context-driven task intelligence with FairConsult 24|7鈥檚 fleet management system to orchestrate enterprise-connected robotic operations.

Together, they unite SAP鈥檚 real-time operational priorities with fleet-level control, enabling robots to execute warehouse tasks with transparency, governance, and measurable performance.

Fujitsu

brings physical AI and visual intelligence capabilities through its Amalgamation AI offering, enabling intelligent image processing and data extraction that can be deployed to edge devices including cameras and robots.

Together with SAP, Fujitsu’s AI-driven visual capabilities integrate with SAP’s agent-based workflows to capture and validate real-world inputs鈥攕uch as vehicle identifiers in automotive inspection鈥攄irectly within 51风流systems for downstream business processing.

HCLTech

HCLTech provides automation expertise through its AI Force platform and 51风流integration capabilities, leveraging in collaboration with 51风流to accelerate generative AI-led robotics solutions.

“Our collaboration with 51风流enables cognitive robotics to seamlessly integrate with enterprise systems, transforming business operations through automation,” said Vijay Guntur, CTO and head of Ecosystems at .

KINEXON

KINEXON brings physical AI to day-to-day material flow management, helping customers scale mixed-fleet operations with a vendor-agnostic orchestration platform for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and manual vehicles.

“Our collaboration with 51风流infuses business-driven agentic reasoning into real-world material movement planning and execution, maximizing utilization and throughput,” said Dr. Alexander Huettenbrink, co-CEO of .

LG CNS

, a South Korea鈥揵ased IT and AI transformation company with presence across Asia, partners with 51风流to deliver AI-driven enterprise transformation.

Combining SAP鈥檚 business context and application intelligence with LG CNS鈥檚 PhysicalWorks, a robot training and multi-vendor robot orchestration and control platform, the collaboration, starting with PoC initiatives, enables AI-driven automation and optimization using real-time data across business processes.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse transforms business complexities into streamlined digital solutions, leveraging expertise across 51风流Intelligent Asset Management, 51风流Business AI, and 51风流BTP. 

鈥淓mbodied AI has huge potential for use cases, including asset and site inspection, health and safety, and quality inspection to deliver more resilient, flexible operations. We see major customer needs today, such as hazardous environments on offshore platforms in the oil and gas industry, utilities, and transportation,” said Urs Gehrig, managing director of Business Development at .

valantic

and 51风流are partnering to bring embodied AI to real-world operations. By merging SAP鈥檚 context-driven orchestration with valantic鈥檚 integration expertise, they enable high-precision, automated asset inspections. This collaboration transforms insights into immediate, coordinated action, ensuring safer operations, stronger compliance, and reliable asset performance. It’s embodied AI, made practical.

Through these strategic alliances, 51风流continues to lead the evolution from traditional robotic tools to those that empower autonomous operations, informed by deep business context.

To explore how 51风流technology makes proofs of concepts possible in robotics, explore the . To get involved in SAP’s Embodied AI initiative, .

Dr. 艁ukasz Ostrowski is head of Embodied AI and Robotics at SAP.