Accelerating physical AI for the enterprise

Together, EY and NVIDIA help organizations design and build safer, smarter and more autonomous operations.

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Every industry that depends on physical operations faces a common reality: Legacy approaches to labor, safety and scale are quickly becoming unsustainable, and advancements in technologies are quickly separating the leaders from laggards. Physical AI — the technology that enables AI to perceive, reason about, and act in the physical world — is the next frontier. Through the EY–NVIDIA Alliance, we bring it to life for the world's most complex enterprises.

As an NVIDIA Preferred Provider for Physical AI, EY teams work closely with NVIDIA on developing strategic services and solutions. NVIDIA provides the platform: accelerated computing, Omniverse for digital twin development, Isaac for high-fidelity robotics simulation and policy training, Cosmos as a frontier World Foundation Model (WFM) and CuOpt for GPU-accelerated decision optimization. EY teams bring the strategy, architecture, industry experience, integration and responsible AI governance to turn that technology into business outcomes. Together, we offer a full-spectrum physical AI capability — from boardroom strategy to factory-floor deployment.

Physical AI encompasses a broad spectrum: digital twins; simulation environments; humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles; computer vision systems; and foundation models that generate synthetic environments at scale. Every organization's starting point is different, but every path can lead to smarter, safer, more autonomous operations. Learn more.

Global industries face mounting pressures that physical AI can help solve

EY teams help address these critical challenges:

Many organizations cannot see, measure or model their physical operations in real time. EY teams help build physically accurate digital twins, leveraging the NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and microservices that give leaders a living, data-connected replica of their operations. This approach enables real-time monitoring, scenario planning, and evidence-based decision-making before committing resources in the real world.
Testing changes to factory layouts, logistics flows or safety protocols in the real world is expensive, slow and risky. EY leverages NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim to create simulation environments where clients can test, iterate and validate changes virtually — reducing cost, accelerating time-to-decision and eliminating real-world disruption.
High turnover, aging populations and climbing labor costs are straining physically demanding sectors. EY and NVIDIA offer solutions and services for autonomous systems — from digital-twin-optimized workflows to humanoid robotics — that augment and extend the human workforce.
Manual processes produce inconsistent output, lower productivity and bottlenecks. EY integrates NVIDIA's accelerated computing and simulation platforms to digitize, model and improve physical workflows overall — often starting with a digital twin that reveals inefficiencies invisible to traditional analysis.
Using NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim, EY professionals build digital twin simulations that allow organizations to rehearse operations, test safety scenarios and validate robotic deployments virtually — before exposing workers or assets to real-world hazards.

Complex, global supply chains demand more adaptive, real-time responses. EY leverages NVIDIA CuOpt and digital twin technologies to build simulated supply chain models that allow organizations to stress-test disruption scenarios and optimize routing, inventory and logistics dynamically.
Digital twins allow organizations to simulate scale before investing in it — modeling the impact of adding new lines, sites or autonomous assets. EY architecture services, built on the NVIDIA platform, power the move from simulation to enterprise-wide deployment.
Legacy systems often don't integrate well with modern AI, robotics or simulation platforms, stalling transformation. EY provides vendor-agnostic integration grounded in NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help enable interoperable 3D and simulation workflows across fragmented technology estates into a single, connected digital twin environment.

How EY can help

EY Physical AI services, powered by NVIDIA

Physical AI strategy

Strategic roadmaps for deploying physical AI — from digital twins and simulation to robotics and autonomous systems — aligned with the NVIDIA technology roadmap. Includes identifying highest-value use cases for immediate ROI.

Digital twins and simulation

Physically accurate, data-connected digital twins developed with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, with synthetic data generation from NVIDIA Cosmos to accelerate AI training and scenario modeling.

Safety, ethics and governance

Guardrails ensuring autonomous systems and simulation-driven decisions are safe, ethical and compliant, incorporating NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails and EY Responsible AI principles.

Physical AI architecture

Scalable, modular reference frameworks built on NVIDIA DGX Cloud, Omniverse libraries, Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, Cosmos, NIMs and Blueprints, and Metropolis — including digital twin infrastructure.

Implementation and integration

Production-grade delivery integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for digital twins, NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for robotics training, NVIDIA Cosmos for world simulation, and NVIDIA CuOpt for real-time optimization.

Asset management and operations

Managed services for digital twins, robotic fleets and autonomous systems — with continuous synchronization between real-world telemetry and NVIDIA simulation environments.

Use cases

The intelligent shipyard

Improve autonomous fleet planning and operations using a digital twin-driven recommendation engine built on NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim.

Safety at scale in aerospace and ports

Demonstrate how safety‑critical workflows are validated using a physics‑based digital twin that simulates humanoid robotic platforms in aerospace and port environments.

Hyper-realistic energy digital twin

Transform operating models with hyper-realistic digital twins that accurately represent assets, environments and operating conditions.

Webcast: Scaling Physical AI from pilot to production

Join leaders from EY and NVIDIA, along with industry pioneers, to explore how organizations are operationalizing digital twins, robotics and autonomous systems at scale from pilots to production.

Featured insights

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How humanoid robotics are strengthening complex industrial work

Upcoming webcasts and events

What’s next for physical AI: insights, macro trends and projections

In this webcast, panelists discuss the future of physical AI, its impact on industries, and strategies for scaling innovation and delivering business value.

The team

Geoff Vickrey

EY Global NVIDIA and Dell Technologies Alliances Chief Commercial Officer

Helping clients thrive in the Transformative Age through tech and AI. A champion of diversity and builder of the next generation of leaders. Enjoys family time, golf and travel.

Dallas, TX, United States

Vidhya Sekhar

EY Americas Financial Services Data and Analytics Leader

Transformation leader. AI believer. Data and analytics professional. Problem solver. Team player. Working mother. Realist.

Hoboken, NJ, United States

Dr. Youngjun Choi

EY Global Robotics & Physical AI Leader

Passionate robotics visionary. Physical AI strategist. Servant leader. STEM education advocate. Loving husband and father.

Atlanta, GA, United States

Rodrigo Madanes

EY Global Innovation AI Leader

Passionate AI visionary.

Palo Alto, CA, United States

Domhnaill Hernon

EY Global Intelligent Realities Lab Lead

3D world builder. Fusing creativity and technology to enable business value creation.

Dublin, Ireland

Trent Hargrove

EY Global NVIDIA Alliance Relationship Director

Digital transformation leader. Collaborating with clients to build tomorrow's tech today. Passionate about innovation and collaboration. Fueled by his family and the great outdoors.

Dallas, TX, United States

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