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内容总结：

埃森哲携手沃达丰展示人形机器人仓库应用成果，物理AI或重塑制造业工作模式

在近日举行的德国汉诺威2026工业博览会上，爱尔兰科技咨询公司埃森哲展示了一项与沃达丰采购连接（Vodafone Procure & Connect）及SAP合作进行的创新试点成果。该试点在德国杜伊斯堡的沃达丰仓库成功部署了人形机器人，标志着物理人工智能（AI）在提升工业环境运营效率与安全性方面迈出实质性一步。

试点中，机器人搭载由埃森哲开发的“机器人大脑”系统，能够通过语音、手势和文本与人类操作员交互，并接收来自SAP扩展仓库管理系统的巡检任务指令，实现自主作业。它们成功完成了多项具体工作：识别错放或损坏的产品、评估托盘堆叠与重量分布、发现未利用空间，并在通道内巡逻以排查安全隐患及托盘错位情况，同时将数据实时回传至SAP系统，辅助管理人员快速决策。

为准备此次测试，机器人在基于埃森哲“物理AI编排器”构建的仓库数字孪生环境中进行了训练。该平台利用英伟达Omniverse和Metropolis工具库，使机器人能够通过模仿与强化学习掌握多种新技能，避免了局限于单一重复性功能。

埃森哲先进机器人与物理AI负责人克里斯蒂安·苏什表示，试点证明人形机器人可有效降低工人受伤风险、减少仓库安全事故，并削减加班成本与对临时劳动力的依赖。沃达丰计划根据试点反馈，加速在其工厂推广机器人部署。

埃森哲全球制造、运营与物理AI业务主管普拉萨德·萨蒂亚沃鲁指出，该项目展示了从模拟训练、仓库部署到与SAP数据整合的闭环应用，为人形机器人全面融入业务流程提供了范例。

目前，人形机器人正逐渐成为制造业尤其是汽车行业的常见身影，宝马已在美国南卡罗来纳州、德国莱比锡的工厂投入使用，中国小米公司也在北京引入了相关技术。此次试点进一步表明，物理AI与机器人技术的结合正推动新型商业模式与工作形态的形成。

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近日，又一家全球性企业开始在工业场景中尝试人形机器人应用。埃森哲在2026年德国汉诺威工业博览会上，生动展示了人形机器人如何在真实工作环境中发挥重要价值。这家总部位于爱尔兰的技术咨询公司，联合沃达丰采购连接部门与SAP共同在仓库中开展了试点项目，并展示了成果。该项目证实了实体AI能够提升运营效率与安全性，并在此过程中塑造新型商业模式。

试点在德国杜伊斯堡的沃达丰设施中进行，人形机器人与现有系统协同作业。这些机器人搭载埃森哲自主研发的"机器人大脑"系统，可通过语音、手势和文本与人类操作员交互，并接收来自SAP扩展仓库管理系统的检测任务自主执行。

机器人成功完成了多项具体工作：识别错位或损坏的产品、评估托盘堆叠与重量分布、标记未利用空间。它们还在通道中巡逻排查潜在危险、识别摆放不齐的托盘，同时将数据实时回传至SAP系统，助力人类同事快速做出精准决策。

为筹备此次试验，机器人在仓库数字孪生系统中接受了全面训练。该训练平台基于埃森哲"实体AI编排器"构建，运用英伟达Omniverse与Metropolis工具库，使机器人能通过模仿学习与强化学习掌握多项新技能，避免局限于单一重复性功能。

目前沃达丰计划根据试点反馈，加速在其工厂推广机器人部署。埃森哲先进机器人与实体AI业务负责人克里斯蒂安·苏什表示："人形机器人可降低工人受伤风险与仓库安全事故，减少加班成本及对临时劳动力的依赖。更重要的是，沃达丰采购连接部门将收集关于机器人部署与性能的宝贵数据，为未来人形机器人劳动力解决方案业务奠定基础。"

埃森哲全球制造、运营与实体AI业务主管普拉萨德·萨蒂亚沃卢补充道："该项目完美诠释了人形机器人从模拟训练、仓库部署到SAP数据整合的全流程闭环应用，实现了与事务处理系统的深度融合。"

人形机器人正逐渐成为制造设施中的常见身影，尤其在汽车行业表现突出：宝马已在南卡罗来纳州、德国莱比锡及中国部署应用，小米也在北京引入了相关技术。

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The firm is the latest global organization to try out humanoids in an industrial setting.
Accenture used Germany’s Hannover Messe 2026 tech show to illustrate how humanoid robots can now contribute significantly in real-world working environments.
The Ireland-based tech consulting company is showcasing the results of a pilot it conducted in a warehouse in tandem with Vodafone Procure & Connect and SAP, which it says proves how physical AI can make operations more efficient and safer, in the process shaping new business models.
The pilot was conducted at a Vodafone facility in Duisburg, Germany, where humanoid robots were deployed alongside existing systems. The bots are powered by Accenture’s Robot Brain system, which enabled them to engage with human operators using voice, gestures and text, and they were issued inspection tasks by SAP’s Extended Warehouse Management system, which they executed autonomously.
The robots conducted several specific jobs successfully, including detecting misplaced or damaged products; assessing pallet stacking and weight distribution; and highlighting unused space.
The bots also patrolled aisles to seek out potential hazards and identify misaligned pallets, while reporting into the SAP system to enable immediate, informed decision making among their human counterparts.
To prepare for the trial, the robots were trained in digital twins of the warehouse. These were built on Accenture’s Physical AI Orchestrator, which uses Nvidia Omniverse and Metropolis libraries to enable the bots to learn a selection of new skills using imitation and reinforcement learning, and to avoid being restricted to a single repetitive function.
Now, the plan is for Vodafone to use feedback from the pilot to accelerate the rollout of bots in its plants.
Christian Souche, lead for advanced robotics and physical AI at Accenture, claimed the pilot had been a success.
“Humanoid robots can reduce worker injuries and other warehouse safety incidents and lower overtime costs and the dependency on temporary labor,” he said in a statement. “Equally important, Vodafone Procure & Connect will gather valuable data and insights on robot deployment and performance as a basis for a future humanoid workforce solutions business.”
“[This] is a great example of how holistic deployment of humanoid robots -- from simulation and training to warehouse deployment and integration with SAP data -- creates a closed loop with transactional systems,” Prasad Satyavolu, Accenture’s global lead for manufacturing, operations and physical AI,” said in a statement.
Humanoid bots are gradually becoming a more common sight in manufacturing facilities, notably in the auto industry, where BMW has used them in South Carolina and Leipzig, Germany, and China’s Xiaomi has introduced them in Beijing.