Hannover Messe 2026: agentic AI takes center stage

2026-04-20 · Publisher : Hannover Messe · Domain : Industry 4.0 & 5.0

From 20 to 24 April 2026, Hannover Messe highlights agentic AI and factory twins: NVIDIA and partners show agentic design, simulation and humanoid robots, while SAP presents agents for production and supply chain.

### Background The 2026 edition of **Hannover Messe**, from 20 to 24 April, makes **agentic AI** its central theme. Major industrial software vendors no longer present only assistants but agents that plan, execute and check design, production and logistics tasks. ### Key facts - **NVIDIA** and partners: agentic design and engineering, real-time simulation, vision AI agents and humanoid robots in factories. Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens and Synopsys integrate CUDA-X, Omniverse libraries and Nemotron open models. - Factory twins: ABB connects Genix to Omniverse libraries and Azure for root-cause analysis agents; Kongsberg Digital, Microsoft and others show twins built on OpenUSD. - Deutsche Telekom's **Industrial AI Cloud**: Agile Robots, SAP, Siemens, PhysicsX and Wandelbots present their use cases; EDAG will run its metys platform on it. - **SAP**: agents embedded in production and supply chain processes, including a Production Master Data Agent (routings from bills of materials) announced for availability in Q2 2026, ahead of SAP Sapphire announcements. - Siemens launches the Eigen Engineering Agent (separate entry). ### Why it matters For industrial leaders, the show marks the shift from copilot demos to agents connected to production data, ERP and the factory twin. Open questions concern governance: which decisions to leave to the agent, with what human validation. ### Takeaway In 2026, agentic AI becomes the common vocabulary of industrial vendors, from CAD to ERP.

Tags : Hannover Messe, IA agentique, Jumeau numérique, NVIDIA, SAP