Hitachi and NVIDIA collaborate to advance HMAX

• 20 Jul 2026
• TM Team
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Hitachi, Ltd., in collaboration with NVIDIA, will develop multi-agent orchestration technology to accelerate end-to-end autonomous operations within manufacturing and social infrastructure environments. This technology aims to scale and advance "HMAX by Hitachi" ("HMAX"), a suite of solutions, bringing the power of AI to the real world Through this collaboration, together with NVIDIA and customers participating in the ecosystem, Hitachi will create a model for end-to-end operational optimization and autonomy. The outcome will seamlessly integrate and orchestrate diverse facilities, equipment, and systems operating at customer sites—including those from third party vendors—in a vendor-agnostic manner.

To achieve both the open interconnection of diverse facilities and multiple Agentic AI while preserving data sovereignty and protecting enterprise information assets, Hitachi will leverage IWIM*1, its social infrastructure intelligence platform model, as a knowledge and reasoning foundation, and integrate it with NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software, including the NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime, NVIDIA NemoClaw agent blueprint and open source NVIDIA Nemotron models. Through this collaboration, Hitachi and NVIDIA aim to build a "Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform" that enables the safe and secure orchestration of multiple AI agents, even in mission critical environments.

Furthermore, they will connect IWIM with NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models, to ensure that control enabled by this platform can operate safely and autonomously in the physical world and establish a highly accurate, safe, and reliable validation environment based on digital twins.

Going forward, Hitachi and NVIDIA will build a global physical AI ecosystem centered on this “Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform” and its digital twin-based validation environment. By inviting participation from a diverse range of customers and partners across the robotics, mobility, energy, and industrial equipment sectors, they will promote the formation of a cross industry ecosystem. Discussions have already begun with several companies, including global leaders in industrial robotics, regarding participation in the ecosystems. To support technology validation and digital transformation in operational environments, Hitachi’s Physical AI FDE Team—combining the advanced digital engineering capabilities of GlobalLogic, Hitachi’s U.S. subsidiary, with Hitachi’s OT (Operational Technology) expertise—will provide hands-on support to drive use case exploration and solution development.

Furthermore, the platform established through these technical validations and the solutions created through the support of the Physical AI FDE Team, will be leveraged to continuously enhance HMAX. Through this practical and open co-creation framework, Hitachi, together with its partners, will accelerate the real-world adoption of Physical AI and support digital transformation and sustainable growth across industries.