HCL Technologies announced an extension of its partnership with European enterprise software leader SAP to create Physical AI solutions that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into practical industrial and business processes.

According to reports, the two firms will collaborate on customer initiatives that utilize embodied AI to enhance productivity, streamline operations, and facilitate more intelligent decision-making in manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics.

Physical AI enables autonomous systems to sense, comprehend, analyze, and execute or coordinate intricate activities in the real world. Embodied AI is a category of Physical AI that pertains to AI possessing a physical form, like robots and autonomous vehicles, capable of perceiving and interacting in actual environments.

The two companies will collaborate on AI-driven improvements for warehouse activities, creating systems that automate selecting and sorting to enhance speed, efficiency, and precision.

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They will utilize multi-agent AI models for fleet management, aiming to enhance logistics and fleet performance on an enterprise level. Furthermore, the collaborators intend to investigate embodied AI applications for 3D reality capture, facilitating enhanced data capture, analysis, and operational decision-making.

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"Through our strategic collaboration with SAP, HCLTech is leading the way in merging cognitive robotics with enterprise systems, ushering in a new age of intelligent automation. With this new partnership with SAP, we are empowering companies to change operations, speed up innovation, and achieve quantifiable benefits from large-scale automation," stated Vijay Guntur, CTO and Head of Ecosystems at HCLTech.

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This month, HCLTech established an AI Innovation Lab in collaboration with chip leader Nvidia in Santa Clara, California, aimed at assisting businesses in exploring, developing, and expanding industry applications of physical AI and cognitive robotics.